Russia Launches Military Satellite From Plesetsk

Russia on Tuesday launched a owner energy from its northern Plesetsk space center to put a Kobal't-M military satellite in crowd, the Buttress Ministry thought. A Soyuz-2.1a energy carrying a classified military satellite lifted off on circuit at 5.49 p.m. Moscow time (13:49 GMT), according to Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, a spokesman for Russia's Aerospace Buttress Services. "The energy was launched as put down," the military spokesman thought, noting that the jerk was prepared under move of Commander-in-chief of Aerospace Buttress Troops Lieutenant Frequent Alexander Golovko.

"A medium-class energy Soyuz-2.1a near a satellite in interests of the Buttress Ministry was launched at 5.49pm Moscow time (1.49pm GMT) on Tuesday, May 6, from beginning pad #4 at blast-off site #43 of spaceport Plesetsk by a combat unit of Russian Aerospace Buttress Troops," Zolotukhin thought.

The Kobal't-M, else open as the Yantar-4K2M or by its GRAU register of 11F695M, is a extraordinary unshakable exemplar of a film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. As the tally suggests, such spacecraft rustle up images of the Realm which are something like returned to earth by means of one or expert unhappy recoverable capsules.

The spacecraft launched on Tuesday is the ninth Kobal't-M and the 177th Yantar imposing. It life-force be designated Kosmos 2495 upon reaching crowd successfully, becoming constituent of the cage used to be a symptom of Russian, and sooner than Soviet, military satellites.

It was the painstaking jerk of a Soyuz-2 energy from Plesetsk this go out with. The first jerk on Oppose 24 delivered a Glonass-M navigation satellite indoors crowd, Zolotukhin thought.

Soyuz-2.1a, a three-stage owner energy near digital flight control system, was first launched in 2011.

It life-force be used at Plesetsk Cosmodrome to speak military spacecraft to the crowd.

Credit: RIA Novosti, ITAR-TASS, nasaspaceflight.com