The Russian State Corporation Roskosmos reported that the record number of Russian satellites to orbit.
“A passing payload, consisting of 49 Russian, Russian-Chinese, Russian-Zimbabvian and two Iranian small spacecraft, was delivered to target orbits and separated from the Frigate acceleration unit, which was launched today by the Soyuz-2.1B rocket “From the eastern,” the message says.
The state corporations noted that “taking into account the Heliogeophysical satellites” Ionosphere-M “, the simultaneous launch of 51 Russian spacecraft brought into orbit, became a record in the history of Russian cosmonautics”.
In the interests of the Roscosmos conducted by the Higher Educational institutions of the country of the Universet program, six Cubesat satellites were delivered to space, ”the report.
Earlier, the state corporations reported that the Helioheophysical spacecraft “Ionosphere-M” No. 1 and No. 2, launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome, were delivered to a given orbit and separated from the Frigate acceleration unit. The devices have already been taken into control, noted in Roscosmos.