Russia launches new military satellite into orbit

The Russian Air and Space Forces (AFS) has launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. It will be put into orbit a satellite in the interests of the Russian Defence Ministry.

"On Thursday, December 21, at 11:48 Moscow time from the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk region, the combat crews of the Space Forces of the All-Union Space Forces conducted a launch of a medium-class launch vehicle 'Soyuz-2.1b' with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defence," the ministry's report says, according to Caliber.Az.