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Nov 2, 2022
On Wednesday, November 2, 2022, from the Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the Arkhangelsk Region, combat crews of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The launch of the carrier rocket and the launch of the spacecraft into the calculated orbit took place in the normal mode. After launch, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle was taken for escort by means of the ground-based automated control complex of the Main Test Space Center named after G.S. Titov.
At the estimated time, the spacecraft was launched into the target orbit by the Fregat upper stage and accepted for control of ground facilities of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
A stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft. The onboard systems of the vehicle are functioning normally. He was assigned the serial number "Cosmos-2563".
After the spacecraft was launched into orbit, officers of the Main Space Intelligence Center of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces entered information about it into the main catalog of space objects of the Russian space control system and began to analyze and process information about the new space object.
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/38461/
Plesetsk: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/pleseck/
Soyuz-2: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-2/
Images, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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