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Dec. 27, 2019
Rockot liftoff
Launched on December 27, 2019 at 02:11 Moscow time from the First State Testing Cosmodrome of Plesetsk, the Rokot light carrier rocket successfully launched the Gonets-M communication spacecraft into orbit. This launch completes the operation of this modification of the launch vehicle.
All prelaunch operations and the launch of the launch vehicle took place as usual. The space head of the Rokot rocket as part of the Breeze-KM booster block and spacecraft separated at the set time from the second stage of the launch vehicle. Spacecraft launched into the calculated orbit and transferred to the control.
Rokot launches Blits-M and Gonets-M satellites
The Rokot liquid two-stage light rocket was designed at the Khrunichev GKNPC on the basis of the RS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile and is designed to launch small and medium spacecraft into solar-synchronous and near-polar orbits.
Gonets-M satellite
The use of the Briz-KM booster block as a part of the Rokot rocket launcher allows for the implementation of various payload launch schemes, including the group launch of spacecraft into one or more orbits. Over the flight history of the Rokot launch vehicle, since 2000, 31 launches have been made as part of federal and commercial programs.
Blits-M satellite
Currently, the GKNPTs im. M.V. Khrunicheva (part of Roscosmos State Corporation) is developing technical documentation for a modernized version of the Rokot launch vehicle with the replacement of the imported element base with a Russian one.
Roscomos Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/27904/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/SciNews/Günter Space Page/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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