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March 23, 2023
Today at 09:40 Moscow time 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-2.1a 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-2.1a 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 and accepted for control of the ground facilities of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces.
A stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, its onboard systems are operating in the normal mode. The spacecraft was assigned the serial number Kosmos-2567.
After launching into orbit, officers of the Main Center for Space Intelligence of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces entered information about the satellite into the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System and began to analyze and process information about the new object.
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/39060/
Soyuz-2: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/sojuz-2/
Plesetsk: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/pleseck/
Ministry of Defence: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/ministerstvo-oboronih/
Image, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/Ministry of Defence (Russia)/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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