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Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket successfully launched Meridian-M military communications satellite into orbit

Russian Aviaton » Thursday February 20, 2020 16:15 MSK

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A Fregat booster has delivered a Meridian-M military communications satellite into orbit. This reported by TASS with reference to the data of Russian Defense Ministry.

"A Soyuz-2.1A medium carrier rocket that blasted off at 11:24 a.m. Moscow time on Thursday, February 20, from the Russian Defense Ministry’s State Testing Cosmodrome (the Plesetsk spaceport in the Arkhangelsk Region) successfully delivered a Meridian-M satellite into the designated orbit at the required time," the ministry said in a statement.

The launch of the Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket and the satellite’s delivery into orbit by the Fregat booster proceeded in the normal mode, the ministry informed.

As a source in the domestic space industry told TASS earlier, the launch was initially scheduled for January 24 but was put off due to a short circuit in the electrical equipment of the rocket’s third stage. After that, the rocket was removed from the launch pad and its faulty stage was replaced.

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