Russia sends military sat into orbit

“The launch went smoothly,” Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, spokesman for the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces, told Interfax on Friday.

He added that the launch was controlled by the Forces’ ground-based automated control system.

Zolotukhin said the rocket put the Cosmos-series military satellite into a designated orbit at 09:49 a.m. Moscow time (0549 GMT).

The military satellite is expected to separate from the rocket’s DM-2 upper stage at 4:27 p.m. Moscow time (1227 GMT) on Friday, the spokesman added.

The launch was the 311th and the final one using Russia’s Proton-K rocket, which will no longer be built in Russia and will be replaced by a modernized version of Proton-M rocket.

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