The carrier rocket "proton-M" with a military satellite was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, said the Department of information and mass communications of the Ministry of defence.
The start was made Tuesday at 00. 56 GMT.
according to the Agency, all pre-launch operations and launch were in operation.
Ground HQs in 01. 01 took a rocket to the accompaniment. 01. 06 its head part with a unit for acceleration "breeze-M" and the satellite successfully separated from the third stage. The Ministry commented that the unit for acceleration will be the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit a few hours.
in February, the chief of staff, Deputy commander of the space troops of the aerospace defence forces of Russia Igor Morozov on air of radio "Echo of the capital of Russia" said that the last launch of Russian military satellite from the Baikonur cosmodrome will take place in 2019, after which all launches of space vehicles in interests of the Ministry of defense of Russia will take place from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Archangel region.
He did not identify the companion, but before the source of the Last news in the space industry told, because this will be the fourth military communications satellite " Blagovest ".
in may, the head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu said that before the end of 2019 will End the formation of the orbital grouping of military communications "Blagovest" from the 4 satellites. The first 3 satellites "Blagovest" was put into orbit in the last month of summer 2017, April and December 2018.
Telecommunications satellites "Blagovest" factory-constructed "Information satellite systems" name Reshetnev under the contract with the Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation at the place of the platform " Express-2000 ". They are evenly placed in a geostationary orbit (circular orbit with altitude of 35 786 kilometers), which provides global coverage and guarantee Russian military access to high speed data transmission, the radio and television programmes, Internet, telephony and other forms of communication. Space devices use advanced Ka - and Q-band frequencies.
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