Meteor-M2 satellite lauched from Baikonur
9 July, 2014 16:06
A Soyuz-2-1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage lifted off as scheduled from Site 31 in Baikonur Cosmodrome on July 8, 2014, at 19:58:28 Moscow Time (11:58 a.m. EST). The launch vehicle is carrying a Meteor-M No. 2 spacecraft, along with a cluster of six secondary satellites, the Roscosmos official website reports.
Meteor-M2 satellite was lauched from the Baikonur on July 8 at 19.58 pm by Moscow standard time. The space craft will join the existing national meteorological orbital grouping," according to Roscosmos.
“Meteor-M (automatic space craft) – is one of the first perspective space crafts which is able to provide hydro meteorological support. Meteor-M2 was designed to watch global weather, the ozone layer, the ocean surface temperature and ice conditions to facilitate shipping in polar regions and to monitor radiation environment in the near-Earth space.
