+1 GLONASS-M, total complete set

On October 3, at 0015 hours Moscow time, the successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1b space rocket with the Fregat upper stage and navigation satellite was performed with the participation of specialists from the rocket and space industry at the 43 launch site of the Plesetsk cosmodrome at the Plesetsk space center. Glonass-M.

At 0018 hours, the RN was taken to be accompanied by the means of the G.S. Titov Test Center for Testing and Control of Space Facilities .

In accordance with the cyclogram of the launch of the spacecraft into the target orbit at 3 hours and 47 minutes, the Glonass-M apparatus was regularly separated from the upper stage and was taken over.
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You can read the report about this event and quotes from the speeches of officials (such as the Commander of the Space Forces), for example, in Polit.Ru . A blogger russos in LiveJournal posted more than twenty spectacular photos, one of which (taken the day before the launch) I will bring for beauty:



The deputy director of NIS GLONASS told RIA Novosti that the launched satellite should complete the formation of the orbital grouping of the system, designed for the simultaneous operation of 24 spacecraft, and will allow for continuous navigation throughout the globe. It will take about a month to put the satellite into operation.