“Launched today, December 27, at 02:11 Moscow time from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region), the Rokot light-class launch vehicle launched three“ Gonets-M ”communication spacecraft and a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry at the scheduled time ", - the agency reports to TASS.
The Ministry of Defense added that the control of the Gonets-M communication satellites was transferred to the customer of the Gonets Satellite System JSC.
Earlier it was reported that the Rokot rocket with the Gonets-M communications spacecraft unit and military satellite launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
On December 24, Roscosmos State Corporation announced the successful launch of Electro-L meteorological satellite No. 3 into the target orbit.