AMAC - Russian Soyuz 2.1b Rocket Ready for Space Weather Satellites

State-owned space company Roscosmos announced that a Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying two Ionosfera-M heliogeophysical spacecraft and 53 small satellites as host payloads has been installed on the launch pad of the Vostochny spaceport in Russia's Far East.

According to Amac News: The Russian news agency "Tass" quoted the Russian Space Agency as writing that on Saturday, the country launched a Soyuz-2.1b space rocket with the heliogeophysical spacecraft Ionosfera-M No. 1 and Ionosfera-M No. 2 and 53 related small Russian and foreigner satellites have been transferred to the launch pad 1S of the Vostochny cosmodrome.
In a statement published by the Russian News Agency (TASS), it is stated that the Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying the satellites is scheduled to blast off at 2:18 a.m. Moscow time on November 5.
Four Ionosfera-M satellites and one Zond-M satellite will be part of the Ionozond constellation, which Russia is building to monitor geophysical processes (space weather) and perform a wide range of tasks, particularly observing the ionosphere and the Sun.