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[i]The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry was carried out on Thursday at 03:15 Moscow time from the launcher No. 4 of the site No. 43 of the Plesetsk State Space Launch Center with the crew of the Space Forces VKS. This was reported in the department of information and mass communications of the military department. "The general leadership of the launch of the Soyuz-2.1b space rocket (ILV) was carried out by the Commander of the Space Forces - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces, Colonel-General Alexander Golovko, who arrived at the cosmodrome to monitor the preparation and conduct of the launch of the spacecraft," the message reads. Flight of the carrier rocket takes place in the normal mode, the department said. "The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle launched at 03:15 Moscow time from the State Plesetsk cosmodrome Plesetsk in the Arkhangelsk region was taken to be accompanied by ground-based Titov Space Testing Center of the Space Forces Aerospace Force," says in the message. [/i]
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