“On Friday, December 27, at 02:11 Moscow time, from the launch pad No. 3 of the platform No. 133 of the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the combat calculation of the Space Forces of the Space Forces carried out the launch of the Rokot light-class launch vehicle with the Gonets-M communications spacecraft unit and a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry, ”the agency reports to TASS.
The Ministry of Defense also said that the rocket was accepted for escort by ground-based means of the G.S. Titov Main Testing Space Center of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
Earlier, the state corporation Roscosmos announced the successful launch of the meteorological satellite Electro-L No. 3 into the target orbit.