Friday, July 27, 2012

Launched from Plesetsk satellite was put into the target orbit

Launched from Plesetsk satellite was put into the target orbit
Ракета "Рокот". Архив

 Booster light class "Rokot", launched on Saturday from Plesetsk (Arkhangelsk region), was successfully launched to target the orbit of one military and three civilian satellites, told reporters on Saturday, a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry troops in the aerospace defense (ASD), Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin.This is the first year and a half start "Rokot", the previous carrier rocket "Rokot" was launched in February last year with a military satellite, "Geo-IK-2" on the board. At the estimated time he made contact, experts were able to establish that it is orbiting close to a settlement. Missile launches "Rokot" suspended pending clarification of the causes of abnormal situations."Beginning from today, July 28, at 05.35 Moscow time from Plesetsk state test booster" Rokot "in due time successfully placed into the target orbit spacecraft (SC) for military purposes, the two spacecraft communication" runner-M "and Research SC "Jubilee-2" - Zolotukhin said.According to him, the launch rocket "Rokot" and the removal of spacecraft went into orbit in the normal mode: at 07.21 Moscow time the spacecraft "Messenger-M", "Jubilee-2" spacecraft and military series "Cosmos" displayed on the calculated orbit ."After the launch into orbit spacecraft for military purposes is assigned a serial number" Kosmos-2481 "- said the representative of the Defense Ministry.Booster light class "Rokot" established under the conversion program based on decommissioned intercontinental ballistic missile RS-18 (NATO reporting name - "Stiletto"). Manufacturer "Rokot" - State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev. The rocket consists of a block of accelerators in the transport-launch canister, which includes first and second stages, and the head of the space consisting of the upper stage "Breeze-KM ', fairing, transitional, intermediate compartment and the payload bay. The first launch of "Rokot" took place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome May 16, 2000. According to the Defense Ministry, all from the Baikonur was conducted sixteen launches the rocket.Satellite system "messenger" is created in low orbits to provide personal communications services in remote regions of the country. Now for the intended purpose has one spacecraft "Messenger-M." It provides the transfer of electronic communications for government agencies. Today is the time of delivery varies from one to two minutes to six hours."Jubilee" (M & ") - the first spacecraft to ISS Academician Reshetnev, which will make pictures of Earth from space.

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