+1 GLONASS-M, total set

    On October 3, at 00:15 Moscow time, from the launch site of site 43 of the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Fregat booster and navigation spacecraft was successfully launched with the participation of specialists from the Russian Space Forces with the participation of rocket and space industry experts. Glonass-M

    At 00 hours 18 minutes the launch vehicle was escorted by means of the test center for testing and control of space assets named after G. S. Titov.

    In accordance with the cyclogram of the launch of the spacecraft into the target orbit at 3 hours 47 minutes, the Glonass-M device regularly separated from the upper stage and was taken into control.

    You can read the report on this event and quotes from speeches of officials (such as the Commander of the Space Forces), for example, at Polit.Ru . And the blogger russos in LiveJournal posted more than twenty spectacular photographs, one of which (made the day before launch) I will bring for beauty: the

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    Deputy Director of NIS GLONASS told RIA Novosti that the launched satellite should complete the formation of an orbital grouping system designed for simultaneous operation 24 spacecraft, and will provide continuous navigation throughout the globe. It takes about a month to put the satellite into operation.

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