Saturday, December 28, 2013

Rocket "Soyuz-2.1V" successfully launched "Stork" in orbit - BFM.Ru

Launched today, the new Russian carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1V” successfully launched into the target orbit a small satellite “Stork”, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry.

Once

spacecraft “Stork” was in orbit, its management was transferred to the customer. Recall that this was a small satellite designed by students of Samara State Aerospace University named after Queen together with specialists “Samara Space Center.” The satellite is designed for research work in the field of measurements of the geomagnetic field and the exchange of information received from scientists in the world.

Now experts

troops aerospace defense started to work on in order to withdraw the block removal “Volga”, which was launched into space along with the carrier rocket, orbit, “Stork.”

first launch unique rocket “Soyuz-2.1V” repeatedly postponed. Including only December 28, 2013 of the Ministry of Defence and the Russian Space Agency on several occasions acted contradictory information regarding this event. Reported that the Defense Ministry finally decided to postpone the launch in 2014. However booster still was launched into space at 16:30 MSK all of a sudden.

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