MOSCOW, March 30 A light-class Soyuz-2.1v rocket launched a spacecraft into orbit in the interests of the Defense Ministry, the military department told reporters.
«At the estimated time, the spacecraft was launched into the target orbit and accepted for control. A stable telemetry connection was established and maintained with the spacecraft,» the ministry said.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the onboard systems of the spacecraft are operating normally, it was assigned the serial number «Kosmos- 2568». The specialists entered information about the satellite into the Main catalog of space objects of the Russian space control system and began to analyze and process information about it.
The Soyuz-2.1v rocket with a spacecraft in the interests of the Ministry of Defense was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on March 29 at 22:57 Moscow time. The ministry emphasized that the launch and launch into the calculated orbit took place as usual.