MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Frigate rocket booster carrying a state-of-the-art Defense Ministry satellite successfully separated from its Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket minutes after launch, the ministry said Tuesday.
The Soyuz-2.1b rocket was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the country’s northwest at 06:34 GMT on Tuesday.
“The spacecraft’s ascent to a calculated orbit with the help of the Frigate upper stage rocket will take several hours,” a ministry representative told RIA Novosti.
The launch from Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk Region is the fourth this year using a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket.
