The Ministry of Defense announced a new launch of the carrier rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” from Plesetsk
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The Russian Aerospace Forces today carried out a new launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a spacecraft from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, reported The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in its Telegram channel.
“At 18:17, from the state test cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the Arkhangelsk region, combat crews of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense,” the message says.
In early November, the Ministry of Defense reported about the successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket from Plesetsk with a military satellite, which was assigned the serial number Cosmos-2563. Prior to that, in October, the Angara-1.2 light launch vehicle launched the Cosmos-2560 satellite into orbit in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry.
Earlier it was reported that the government plans increase funding for the Federal Space Program (FSP) in 2023, 2024 and 2025 for a total amount of more than 73 billion rubles.
It is assumed that additional budget allocations will go to the supply of products in order to meet the tasks of the state defense order (GOZ), as well as to conduct research in the development of weapons, military and special equipment and military-technical property in order to create advanced launch vehicles and spacecraft, stated in the explanatory note to the draft budget for 2023–2025.
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