About it reports RIA Novosti with reference to the documents of "Roskosmos", posted on the website of public procurement.

It is noted that the launch of the Arctic-M meteorological satellite number two for monitoring climate and the environment in the Arctic region was postponed from 2021 to 2023.

As the agency indicates, earlier the launch date of the Arktika-M satellite number one was also changed from 2019 to 2020.

On August 1, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, spoke about the launches planned for 2020 from the Vostochny space center.