Rocket " Soyuz-2. 1A "satellites of remote Earth sounding" kanopus-V " and nine foreign small satellites launched in the process of the 3rd launch from the Vostochny cosmodrome, reports journalist Last news .

Office space head part (the upper stage "Fregat" with eleven companions) from the third stage of "Soyuz" is expected in 05. 16 GMT."Canopus" will bring into the calculated orbit height of about 510 kilometers in 6. 12 GMT. 7. 50 on the orbits of all satellites will be eleven.

The third launch from the East was planned on 22 December 2017. However, after the fact, how in the end a disastrous 2nd start was lost the Russian meteorological satellite "meteor-M" and small spacecraft 18, the Third start with the new Russian cosmodrome was postponed to an indefinite date.

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