Upper stage "Fregat" with a satellite regularly separated from the rocket "Soyuz-2.1a"

It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry.

“The space warhead of the Soyuz-2.1a medium-class launch vehicle, as part of the Fregat upper stage and the spacecraft launched in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense, at the estimated time (10.09 Moscow time) routinely separated from the third stage of the Soyuz- 2.1a," the ministry said.

It is specified that the launch of the spacecraft into the calculated orbit will take several hours.

Earlier it was reported that the space forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region.