Russia has made in the night of Monday to Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the launch of a Proton-M, which has put a military satellite into orbit, announced the Russian space agency Roskosmos and the Ministry of Defense.
The rocket was launched at 3:46 Moscow time (11:46 p.m. GMT), according to Roscosmos.
“The orbiting of the spacecraft must take total approximately nine hours, “said a spokesman of the Ministry of Defense Dmitri Zenine, quoted by the Interfax agency.
The latest launch of Proton, with on board an American satellite took place in late October.
Russia has in recent years experienced a series of setbacks in the space sector.
Failure The last time, the explosion of a Proton rocket its takeoff July 2 from Baikonur, was particularly humiliating for the sector.
The survey explained by human error accident which resulted in the release into the atmosphere of a cloud of highly toxic fuel.
On 10 October, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, had been sacked.
Launch of a Russian Proton rocket with a military satellite
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