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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.
Russian Soyuz 2.1b Rocket Ready for Space Weather Satellites
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.
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