Russia successfully carried out all space launches in 2019
The unit for acceleration " breeze-KM ", launched from the cosmodrome " Plesetsk ", brought into the calculated orbit satellites for military purposes and devices of communication " Gonets-M ", said the Ministry of defense of Russia.
The launch was made in 02. Eleven MSK combat crews of the Space forces, VKS, the removal of spacecraft into orbit passed in working mode.
Communications satellites are transmitted to control the customer - JSC "Satellite system" Gonets ".
It was the 25th and last scheduled for the year 2019 of Space launches of Russia, they all completed successfully. To date, carried out 13 launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, eight from Plesetsk, and one from the East and 3 from Kourou. It allowed Russia to take third place in the world by number of launches of Space rockets, behind China with 33 starts (31 successful) and the United States - with 27 starts. Before the end of the year it is expected two more Chinese start-up.
in addition, It was the last in the history start easy conversion rocket " Rokot ". Held the start was the last in the interests of " Roscosmos ".
Booster light class "Rokot" created during the conversion program in the place of the decommissioned Intercontinental ballistic missile RS-18. 1st the start of "Rokot" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome took place in may 2000. Just from Plesetsk held on 31 missile launch, launched 74 satellites for various purposes. The control system apparatus of the missiles by the Ukrainian company " Hartron ". After the 2014 Ukraine stopped the supply of this equipment in the Russian Federation, making it difficult to conduct launches of the carrier and he decided to give up.
first it was announced that Khrunichev Center (part of "Rosatom" ) is developing a rocket "Rokot-2" with the Russian control system.
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