{"id":15923,"date":"2015-11-18T01:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/first-satellite-launched-for-russias-new-missile-warning-network\/"},"modified":"2015-11-18T01:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:54:38","slug":"first-satellite-launched-for-russias-new-missile-warning-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/first-satellite-launched-for-russias-new-missile-warning-network\/","title":{"rendered":"First satellite launched for Russia\u2019s new missile warning network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9CI2Jn67gs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Russia launched an early warning satellite Tuesday, deploying the first in a new fleet of military satellites to detect missile launches heading for Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The secretive payload blasted off at 0634 GMT (1:34 a.m. EST) aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military facility in northern Russia\u2019s Arkhangelsk region, according to a statement issued by the Russian Defense Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The launcher flew in the modernized Soyuz-2.1b configuration with an upgraded third stage engine and a digital flight control system. A Fregat upper stage was programmed to fire multiple times to guide the mission\u2019s satellite payload, believed to be the first EKS-class missile warning platform, into an elliptical Tundra-type orbit positioned over high latitudes.<\/p>\n<p>The defense ministry declared the flight successful in its statement after the launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the required procedures and the Soyuz-2.1b space rocket launch were carried out as planned,\u201d the defense ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Russia did not release the satellite\u2019s orbital parameters or data on its specifications and capabilities, but U.S. military tracking assets indicated the spacecraft was placed in an orbit with a low point of approximately 1,626 kilometers (1,010 miles), a high point of 38,550 kilometers (23,953 miles) and an inclination of 63.8 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Russian authorities officially named the new EKS satellite Kosmos 2510, keeping with the country\u2019s nomenclature for defense-related spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>EKS is a Russian acronym that translates to integrated space system, according to RussianSpaceWeb.com. The EKS satellites replace Russia\u2019s Oko early warning system, which had its last satellite launch in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>RussianSpaceWeb.com reported the last Oko satellite failed in orbit in 2014, leaving ground-based radars as the Russian government\u2019s only way to detect incoming missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Novosti news agency reported last year that 10 EKS satellites will be launched by 2018 to complete the space-based early warning network.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s launch marked the sixth space mission to lift off from Plesetsk this year, and the fourth using a Soyuz booster. It was the 13th launch of the Soyuz rocket family worldwide in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia launched an early warning satellite Tuesday, deploying the first in a new fleet of military satellites to detect missile launches heading for Russian territory. The secretive payload blasted off at 0634 GMT (1:34 a.m. EST) aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, a military facility in northern Russia\u2019s Arkhangelsk region, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1887,2214,1763,1890,3881,1893,2854,1302],"class_list":["post-15923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-early-warning","tag-eks","tag-fregat","tag-kosmos","tag-kosmos-2510","tag-plesetsk-cosmodrome","tag-russian-defense-ministry","tag-soyuz"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}