Rokot rocket successfully launched from Plesetsk cosmodrome
"Today at 05: 35 Moscow time, a space rocket of a light-duty rocket with a military spacecraft, as well as a block of other devices, including with two communication satellites "Gonets-M" and research apparatus "Jubilee-2", - said Zolotukhin.
“All prelaunch operations and the launch of the Rokot carrier rocket proceeded normally,” he said. “The ground assets of the Aerospace Defense Forces monitored the launch and flight of the launch vehicle.”
In 05: 38 MSK, the Rokot launch vehicle was taken to be escorted by ground-based facilities of the German Titov Main Test Space Center.
"The estimated time of launching the spacecraft into the target orbit - 07: 21 MSK", - said the official representative of the troops of the East Kazakhstan region.
The Rokot light class launch vehicle was created as part of a conversion program based on the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-18. The manufacturing company of the launch vehicle is the GKNPTs named after MV Khrunichev.
"Rokot" consists of a block of accelerators in the transport-launch container, including the first and second stages, and the space head. It includes the Briz-KM upper stage, head fairing, transition system, intermediate compartment and payload compartment.
The first launch of the Rokot rocket launch vehicle from the Plesetsk cosmodrome took place on 16 on May 2000. A total of sixteen launches of this RKN were conducted from the spaceport during this period.
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