Carrying two military satellites Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasts off from Plesetsk spaceport

 

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 The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1v light-class carrier rocket with two satellites on board, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

"A Soyuz-2.1b light-class carrier rocket carrying two satellites was launched from the Plesetsk spaceport on the Russian Defense Ministry’s mission. The satellites were named Cosmos-2561 and Cosmos-2562," the statement reads.

A light-class Angara-1.2 rocket carrying a satellite was launched on the Russian Defense Ministry’s mission from the Plesetsk spaceport on October 15.

Earlier, the general director of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, said that the state corporation should learn how to produce one satellite a day. He noted that Russia is ready to learn from the experience of other countries in this area, in particular, China. “Mass production is a different kind of logistics, starting from storage facilities and providing everything necessary and ending with the organization of production,” the head of the state corporation emphasized.