Watch the Soyuz rocket put the Russian navigation satellite into orbit (VIDEO)



[ad_1]

Watch the Soyuz rocket deliver the Russian navigation satellite into orbit (VIDEO) A video shows a Soyuz-2-1b rocket successfully take off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, in northwestern Russia, while it was delivering a navigation satellite in orbit.

The launch took place on Saturday night. The rocket was equipped with the Fregat upper stage, which propelled a GLONASS-M satellite into orbit. The satellite is part of the Russian national navigation system similar to a GPS.

The rocket was able to eject all the steps and was followed by the Russian aerospace defense forces at the launch, announced the Ministry of Defense.

Previously, a similar rocket had put a military satellite into orbit. The two recent Soyuz launches come after a Soyuz-FG rocket refused to transport NASA cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and Nick Hague to the International Space Station on 11 October.

You think your friends would be interested? Share this story!

[ad_2]
Source link