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It was Russia’s third orbital launch in less than a week.
Russia launched a small military satellite on Saturday (Oct. 15), pulling off its third orbital mission in less than a week.
An Angara rocket lifted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia Saturday at 3:55 p.m. EDT (1955 GMT;10:55 p.m. Moscow time), carrying a small satellite called EMKA-3 skyward, according to an update on Telegram by Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, which referred to the satellite as Kosmos 2560.
“At the estimated time, the spacecraft was launched into the target orbit and accepted for control of ground facilities of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The spacecraft was assigned the serial number Kosmos-2560,” Roscosmos wrote in the telegram update (opens in new tab), accordng to a Google translation. “A stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft, its onboard systems are operating in the normal mode.”
