According to the Russian government’s Defense Ministry, later released by the nonstate news agency Interfax, Russia would have launched an attack satellite in the last few hours.
The operation took place today, Thursday, April 7, at 2:20 p.m. (Moscow time) using a mediumsized Soyuz 2.1b rocket. Missile depot, as stated in the statement, “a satellite of the Russian Ministry of Defense”. All prelaunch and launch phases proceeded correctly and were closely tracked using the Russian Orbital Group’s groundbased automated spacecraft control complex.
there spaceship Cosmos2554 was launched on schedule, the press release said, using launch pad #43 at launch site #3 of the Russian Defense Ministry’s State Experimental Cosmodrome (Plesetsk Cosmodrome, site in the Arkhangelsk region). . The department also highlighted the fact that the spacecraft has already established and continues to maintain a stable telemetry link. It would be an operation aimed at conducting “electronic intelligence from space for the Russian armed forces”.
The start also in China
Even a few hours earlier Beijing announced the launch of a new Earth observation satellite, which was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (i.e. in the northwest of the country). “Gaofen3 03” was launched by a Long March4C rocket this morning at exactly 7:47 a.m. in Beijing and is already correctly in the expected orbit.
The newcomer will soon be connected to its predecessors “Gaofen3” and “Gaofen3 02” to form a stable and highly reliable synthetic aperture radar network. The captured images that will benefitUpdate, has a resolution of 1 meter and a verification period of one day. The satellite will make a valuable contribution to the prevention and mitigation of marine disasters, dynamic monitoring of the marine environment, research and environmental protection, and finally meteorology, water and agriculture protection.