Russian rocket Soyuz successfully launches intelligence satellite in orbit – Connecticut Ledger

The Russian rocket Soyuz put into orbit Thursday an intelligence satellite. Russia launched the Soyuz rocket from the Plessetsk cosmodrome in the far north of Russia, in the Arkhangelsk region, for the first flight of a Soyuz plane since the similar rocket had failed on 11 October to take off a crew to the International Space Station (ISS).

"This is the first rocket launch of the Soyuz family since the October 11 accident," said Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian Space Agency.

The Soyuz-2.1b rocket took off from Plesetsk, according to the Russian army. The Russian army said that it was the third launch of a Soyuz rocket from north Plesetsk this year, while badysts reported that it was no longer the case. was the fourth of a series of Lotos satellites developed in order to collect intelligence for Russian military forces and intercept radio transmissions. .

"Thursday at 3:15 (00:15 GMT), a rocket Soyuz-2.1B was successfully launched, carrying a satellite for the Russian army," said the Russian Defense Ministry in a statement.

A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and NASA astronaut Nick Hague intervened in the plane on October 11 due to the accident, causing an emergency landing on the ground. The Russian space agency Roscosmos has suspended its launches until Thursday.

The Russian Space Agency Roscosmos has commissioned a commission to investigate the failed launch of the ISS and unveil the findings on 30 October. Other satellites, including the Russian navigation satellite Glonbad, will take off from Plesetsk on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket on November 29, 3, and a Soyuz ST-B rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, is expected to be launched on November 6 with a European weather satellite.

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