Union with satellites of 18 countries started from Baikonur

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Soyuz rocket launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome

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The Soyuz 2.1.a launch vehicle was launched with a South Korean satellite and a cluster of payloads from 18 countries.

Today, March 22, a Soyuz rocket with a South Korean satellite and a cluster of payloads from 18 countries was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. It is reported by Roscosmos.

“On March 22, 2021 at 09:07:12 Moscow time, a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage and 38 foreign spacecraft was launched from the launcher No. 6 of the site No. 31 of the Baikonur cosmodrome,” the message says.

The Upper Stage Fregat will launch 38 satellites from 18 countries into orbit.

In particular, the Earth remote sensing spacecraft CAS500-1 (South Korea), the apparatus for removing “space debris” ELSA-d (Japan), the small Saudi Arabian device for imaging the Earth and providing communications NAJM-1, communication satellites of the Technical University of Berlin …

The launch was scheduled for Saturday, March 20, but 38 minutes before the launch, it was postponed to a backup date.

It was previously reported that NASA simulated launchby launching the main stage engines of the Space Launch System at Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

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