MOSCOW, Nov 25 - RIA Novosti. A military satellite launched on Thursday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome by a Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket has been put into a calculated orbit, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
"Launched today, November 25, at 04:09 Moscow time from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Soyuz-2.1B medium-class launch vehicle successfully put the spacecraft into the calculated orbit in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry at the set time. The launch of the Soyuz-2.1B launch vehicle and the launch of the spacecraft into orbit took place in normal mode," the message says.
This is the 51st launch of the Soyuz-2 rocket, flight tests of which began at the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2004. Soyuz-2 replaced the Soyuz-U launch vehicles - 435 such carriers were launched from Plesetsk in the period from 1973 to 2012.
