Thursday, December 25, 2014

Start “Union-2.16″ is scheduled for December 25 – to Pravda.Ru

“The meeting participants reaffirmed their readiness to space rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” to launch and decided to begin filling its components of rocket fuels. Start carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” from the cosmodrome “Plesetsk” is scheduled for December 25, “- said Zolotukhin.

According to RIA Novosti, the meeting appreciated the readiness of the launch vehicle to conduct the launch of the spacecraft. Recall the previous launch a missile with “Plesetsk” was successfully held on the day of the military troops Aerospace Defense, December 1. Then went into orbit navigation satellite of a new generation “Glonass-K”.

The upgraded carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” was created entirely on Russian technology of materials produced in Russia, a noticeable difference from previous models was the digital control system. It can significantly improve the accuracy of the output device at a given point of the Earth’s orbit.

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