MOSCOW, 2 November. A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with two Ionosfera-M heliogeophysical probes and 53 small satellites as host cargo has been installed on the launch pad of the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East, the state space corporation Roskosmos said on Saturday.
"Today, a Soyuz-2.1b space rocket carrying the Ionosfera-M No. 1 and Ionosfera-M No. 2 heliogeophysical satellites and 53 Russian and foreign small satellites was delivered to Launch Pad 1S of the Vostochny Cosmodrome," the Russian space agency said in a statement.
The Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with satellites is scheduled to launch on 5 November at 2:18 Moscow time.
Four Ionosphere-M satellites and one Zond-M satellite will form part of the Ionozond constellation, which Russia is creating to monitor geophysical processes (space weather) and address a wide range of tasks, in particular observations of the ionosphere and the Sun.
TASS / photo: roskosmos / gnews.cz-jav
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