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Meridian: through the thorns to the stars

On the Plesetsk launch vehicle today kicked off the modernized Soyuz-2, which arrives at the first Earth orbit telecommunications satellite series Meridian.

According to the Itar-Tass Chief of Information and Public Relations Space Forces Colonel Alexei Kuznetsov, “is intended to ensure media independence access to space for the performance of Russian space programs, primarily the military. ”

spacecraft Meridian is designed to provide communications for ship and aircraft in the vicinity of the ice Intelligence way to the North Sea shore ground stations, expanding network of satellite connection of northern Siberia and the Far East.

initially start rockets Soyuz-2 “outline for Friday. However, during the preparation predstartovoy missile was detected failure of the booster module software “Fregat. Because of this, the first thing to start postponed a day, and then moved to a later date.