A Russian Space Agency Roscosmos <\/b>Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifted three Russian communications satellites and 19 secondary payloads to orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia\u2019s Arkhangelsk region at 7:20 a.m. EDT on Monday, 2:20 p.m. Moscow Time. Roscosmos tweeted after the launch that all spacecraft were launched into target orbits.<\/p>\n
Three Gonets-M communication satellites were the primary payload. According to Russian News Agency<\/b> known as TASS, Gonets is Russia\u2019s sole low-orbit system of mobile satellite communication, meant for global information exchanges with mobile and stationary facilities and also for creating relay communication channels.<\/p>\n
Exolaunch<\/strong>, a Berlin-based rideshare provider, organized a rideshare for 15 small satellites and provided launch, deployment, mission management, and integration services. The rideshare provider worked with Glavkosmos<\/b>, which operates foreign commercial activities of Roscosmos to secure the launch. This was Exolaunch\u2019s seventh mission with Soyuz. <\/p>\n Exolaunch\u2019s mission, named \u201cWanderlust, Desire To Travel,\u201d includes a cluster of 15 microsatellites and cubesats for customers from Europe, Canada, the United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It included two satellites for Kepler Communications<\/b> to expand its Global Data Services offering; SALSAT (Spectrum AnaLysis SATellite) for the Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin; four of Spire Global<\/b>\u2019s Lemur-class 3U Earth Observation (EO) cubesats; four 3U cubesats for the NetSat constellation for Germany\u2019s W\u00fcrzburg Center for Telematics; and the UAE\u2019s first environmental monitoring nanosatellite MeznSat. Two unnamed commercial customers were also served.<\/p>\n \u201cThis was an ambitious mission and it has been a privilege launching satellites for so many talented teams. With this launch, we have deployed over 100 satellites into orbit, hitting a major milestone in the launch industry,\u201d Exolaunch\u2019s Vice President of Launch Services, Jeanne Medvedeva commented. \u201cAs a self-funded and profitable NewSpace company \u2013 still quite an anomaly for this industry \u2013 Exolaunch is proud to be playing a key role in advancing Germany\u2019s position in the NewSpace field and providing end-to-end launch and deployment solutions for the industry\u2019s leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Soyuz-2-1b rocket lifted three Russian communications satellites and 19 secondary payloads to orbit from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia\u2019s Arkhangelsk region at 7:20 a.m. EDT on Monday, 2:20 p.m. Moscow Time. Roscosmos tweeted after the launch that all spacecraft were launched into target orbits. Three Gonets-M communication satellites were the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58959,"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":[],"class_list":["post-58958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58958"}],"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=58958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}