Soyuz rocket with 38 satellites was successfully launched from Baikonur

According to Roskosmos, this morning at 09:07 Moscow time a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage and 38 spacecraft from 18 countries was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome.

Soyuz rocket with 38 satellites was successfully launched from Baikonur

The rocket will launch into orbit the Earth remote sensing spacecraft CAS500-1 (Republic of Korea), the Japanese apparatus for removing “space debris” ELSA-d, the Japanese GRUS series remote sensing satellites, the small Saudi Arabian satellite for imaging the Earth and providing communications NAJM- 1, communication satellites of the Technical University of Berlin, a satellite of the Higher School of Economics of the Higher School of Economics – ERS, a cubesat of the Sirius Educational Center and the Higher School of Economics, as well as the Orbicraft – Zorkiy satellite from the Russian private space company Sputniks.

“Roskmosmos”

It is worth noting that the launch was supposed to take place on March 20, but it was postponed for technical reasons. Later, Glavkosmos reported that the problem was in the ground support equipment of the upper stage. Today’s launch was successful.

The separation of the orbital block from the third stage of the launch vehicle took place in the normal mode, after which the Fregat upper stage will continue to launch 38 vehicles into three sun-synchronous orbits.

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