The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launched the Angara1.2 launch vehicle from the Plesetsk

The Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launched the Angara1.2 launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Saturday, October 15th at 10:55pm (GMT)
From the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk Region, the combat crew of the space troops of the Aerospace Forces of Russia successfully launched an Angara-1.2 light-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.

Two minutes after the launch, the Angara-1.2 launch vehicle was accepted for escort by ground controls of the German Titov Main Test Space Center.

At the estimated time, the spacecraft was launched into the target orbit and accepted for control of ground facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The spacecraft was assigned the serial number Kosmos-2560.

A stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, its onboard systems are operating in the normal mode.

After the spacecraft was launched into orbit, officers of the Main Space Intelligence Center of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces entered about it in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System and began to analyze and process information about the new space object.

Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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