Satellite "GLONASS-M" is already in orbit

A powerful apparatus in the form of a rocket of carrier-class "Soyuz", equipped with unique block set speed Fregat delivered to orbit satellite "GLONASS-M" the fourteenth day of the month at 21:00 on time of Moscow. The launch was made from the site of Plesetsk.

At this point, with the spacecraft established communications telemetry class. The satellite operates in a normal mode, without any prediction to fail or failure of individual parts, said, gave the Russian aerospace Agency.

Recall that the flight of this satellite is the fourth in a row! The first launch from the site of the famous Russian cosmodrome was made on 26 August 2011. At that time, other analogues of the first generation of satellite phones was not, today we have the opportunity to observe the work of the advanced module of the latest generation.

Source: globalscience.ru