Launch vehicle with Meteor-M satellite installed at Vostochny spaceport’s launch pad
MOSCOW, February 26. /TASS/. A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with Meteor-M satellite No. 2-4 has been installed at launch pad 1C of the Vostochny spaceport, the government-run space corporation Roscosmos has said.
"A Soyuz-2.1b space rocket with Meteor-M hydrometeorological spacecraft No. 2-4 and 18 Russian and foreign small satellites was transported to the launch pad of site 1C of the Vostochny spaceport," the news release reads.
The Soyuz-2.1b is scheduled to blast off at 8:43 a.m. Moscow time (5:43 GMT) on February 29. The launch vehicle will put into orbit the Meteor-M satellite No. 2-4, designed to explore the Earth's natural resources, monitor the heliogeophysical situation in near-Earth space, as well as to receive information from automatic data collection measurement platforms. The spacecraft is also equipped with instruments of the search and rescue system COSPAS-SARSAT.
