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Russia launched a navigation satellite called Glonass-M on 3 November 2018.
Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense
Over the weekend, Russia has completed its second successful launch of Soyuz since October 11, after a failed launch of the crew, taking off on Saturday, November 3 at 23:17. local time (4:17 pm EDT, 2017 GMT).
The launch, which took place at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome located about 800 km north of Moscow, had put into orbit a navigation satellite called Glonass-M. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket was used at launch – the same model as at the last launch in Russia and a variant of the model used for crewed flights, including the October 11th failure.
According to a statement issued by the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos, the satellite was deployed about 3 minutes after its launch and began to communicate normally with the Earth.
The launch took place just days after Roscosmos had completed its investigation into the failure of the launch on Oct. 11, which had sent a NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut to collapse to the ground. The investigation revealed that the abortion had been triggered when a faulty sensor had caused the incorrect separation of a belt amplifier and that it had struck the main amplifier.
Roscosmos said its next flight of the failed rocket model, the Soyuz-FG, would take place on Nov. 16 when launching a cargo to the International Space Station in anticipation of the return of the system to the crewed flights on December 3.
Email Meghan Bartels at [email protected] or follow her. @meghanbartels. follow us @Spacedotcom and Facebook. Original article on Space.com.
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