Russia Launches Rocket From Plesetsk Space Center
Posted on: Saturday, 8 October 2005, 21:00 CDT
MOSCOW. Oct 8 (Interfax) - The Russian Space Forces successfully launched a Rokot rocket, a light-type intercontinental ballistic missile converted into a space vehicle carrying a European Space Agency CryoSat satellite, from the Plesetsk launching pad at 7:02 p.m. Moscow time Saturday, Space Forces spokesman Alexei Kuznetsov told Interfax.
"According to information from space monitoring devices, the lift- off passed according to plan. A Breeze-KM upper stage device will put the satellite into a pre-calculated orbit. The spacecraft is expected to separate from the upper stage at 8:36 p.m. Moscow time," Kuznetsov said.
Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English
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