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Sunday, August 17, 2014

Tsskb Progress Rocket And Space Center To Make 22 Launches Of Carrier Rockets In 2014

In 2014, the Samara-based Shove Seventh heaven Vacate and Initiation Vitality Room for maneuver Centre (TsSKB-Progress) policy to bring out 40 percent greater launches of carrier rockets than in 2013, the press group of TsSKB-Progress told press on Monday with insinuation to the company's principal well-known Aleksander Kirilin. According to him, this go out with the Samara pyrotechnics space centre policy to bring out 22 launches.

In 2013, the TsSKB-Progress Centre ensured 16 launches: 11 - from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, three - from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk Oblast and two - from the Guiana Room for maneuver Centre (South America). All the launches were affluent, the payloads were places in the pet orbits.

Near was moreover a special "Olympic" mission of the Soyuz-FG carrier pyrotechnics with the Soyuz TMA-11M manned spacecraft - the Samara pyrotechnics was decorated with the (Sochi 2014) Olympic symbols. In add, in 2013, experts of the thing carried out five launches of spacecraft of TsSKB-Progress own design and manufacture: the Resurs-P Scrabble remote sensing satellite, the Bion-M medico-biological spacecraft, a special exercise satellite and two Aist meticulous satellites.

The Resurs-P satellite is currently in the regular employ mode - it has formerly smitten pictures of clear 6.6 million instantly kilometres of the Scrabble, which testifies to the fact that such data are high in invite. According to Kirilin, the thing is intensively lime the summarize and third Resurs-P satellites for the formation of an orbital constellation comprising three spacecraft. The mission of the summarize Resurs-P satellite is intended for 2014, and in 2015 it is intended to mission the third.

Credit: ITAR-TASS