Two weeks after the failed launch of a Soyuz rocket, Russia has sent with such a System, a military satellite into space successfully. About the cause of the false starts are still only guesses.
It was to a certain extent – successful – fight to the good reputation of the Soyuz rocket: Around 2.15 PM (local time) lifted the launcher to Russian media reports without incident from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the North of the country.
The Ministry of defence have announced that everything is progressing according to Plan. Launch and flight of the unmanned rocket, with the reconnaissance satellites were monitored.
Control centre in Plesetsk
Cause of crash is cleared may
In mid-October, it was the flight of a Soyuz rocket to the International space station ISS to an accident. It happened about two minutes after the launch from the space site at Baikonur, in Kazakhstan, in the separation of the first from the second stage.
Russian media had reported that a rocket could have been damaged during final Assembly in Baikonur. The spaceman Alexei Ovchinin from Russia and the US-Americans Nick Hague survived, thanks to the built-in rescue system unharmed. The crew of the ISS is equipped, in spite of the failure of the supply of in-flight good for their time in the All – but will extend its use now probably.
Reliable Continuous Pilot
Russia had announced after the incident, to quickly bring back rocket into space. The now was launch of the Soyuz rocket from the predominantly military Plesetsk cosmodrome should point to the previous information, that missiles of this type have no fundamental problems.
Although there have been two recent alarming incidents with a Soyuz rocket in September, a found, and sloppy sealed hole in the outer wall, and two weeks ago, the false start, the Soyuz, the most frequently used and most successful spacecraft in the history of spaceflight. This year three rockets of the type Soyuz-2 are Russian, according to the information already from pleseck lifted.
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