⬆️On 25 December, at 17:11, a combat crew of the Russian Aerospace Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1a medium-class carrier rocket with spacecraft from the Russian Defence Ministry State Test Cosmodrome (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) in Arkhangelsk region.⬇️

▫️ The Soyuz-2.1a launching and the removal of spacecraft into the calculated orbit were carried out in normal mode. After launch, the Soyuz-2.1a medium-class carrier rocket with spacecraft was accepted for escort by means of the ground-based automated control system of the Main Test and Space Systems Control Center n.a. German Stepanovich Titov.

⏱ At the estimated time, the spacecraft were put into target orbits and taken to manage by the ground-based systems of the Russian Aerospace Forces.

🔌 The spacecraft is in stable communication with the ground, and its onboard systems are functioning as normally.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry