Tag: Arktika-M 1
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Russia launches Arctic weather satellite
Russia launched a Soyuz rocket Sunday through a veil of fog over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first spacecraft in a new program to monitor Arctic weather systems and relay emergency communications. The Soyuz-2.1b rocket lifted off from the Site 31 launch pad at Baikonur at 1:55:01 a.m. EST (0655:01 GMT; 11:55:01 a.m.…
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Live coverage: Soyuz rocket launches with polar weather satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket with the Arktika-M 1 weather satellite designed to provide coverage of Russia’s Arctic region. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Roscosmos’s live video stream begins at approximately 0610 GMT (1:10 a.m. EST) and will be available on this page.
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Russian satellite for polar weather forecasting ready for launch Sunday
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket stands on the launch pad at Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos The first in a new constellation of Russian Arctic weather satellites is poised for launch on top of a Soyuz rocket Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia’s Arktika-M 1 spacecraft is inside the nose…