"The combat crew of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces launched the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Gonets-M low-orbit commercial satellite communication system spacecraft and the spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense," RIA Novosti quotes a fragment of the text.
It is clarified that all prelaunch operations and the launch of the rocket took place in the normal mode.
On October 26, it was reported that the new generation satellite GLONASS-K was launched into the calculated orbit.