“The spacecraft, created on the basis of a unified multifunctional space platform, has been put into target orbit from which the state of domestic satellites can be monitored,” RIA Novosti reports the Russian Ministry of Defense.
It is noted that the optical equipment of the spacecraft also allows you to take pictures of the Earth's surface.
It is clarified that a stable communication is maintained with the spacecraft, the on-board systems work normally.
Earlier it became known that the launch unit with a military satellite was regularly separated from the Soyuz-2.1v launch vehicle launched by the Russian Ministry of Defense from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
It was expected that the spacecraft will be fully launched into orbit within a few hours.
The missile was launched by the combat calculation of the Russian Aerospace Forces on November 25 at 20:52 Moscow time.