Scheduled for the end of this year, the launch of three communications satellites “The messenger-M” booster “Soyuz-2.1b” from Plesetsk postponed again. As RIA Novosti reported, citing a source in the space field, It is now scheduled for launch in the next year.
The launch of three communications satellites “The messenger-M” postponed from the end of this year to the next. Conclusion spacecraft was to be held at the end of the year from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in the launcher “Soyuz-2.1b”. The reason for the transfer is not reported. Earlier it was reported repeatedly postponed the launch of satellites “The messenger-M” from Plesetsk with the help of the carrier rocket Rokot. Originally scheduled for launch as early as 2017 by satellites and nebyli sent into orbit, the last date of a possible launch called this November.
Most likely Roskosmos abandoned plans to use packages “deadline” for satellites in orbit due to technical problems with the upper stage “Briz-KM”, in which there are Ukrainian components, for obvious reasons not provided more in Russia. To solve this problem launching satellites could be transferred to the rocket “Soyuz-2.1b”, also launched from Plesetsk.
Previously announced plans to launch three satellites “The messenger-M” rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” before the end of this year. then, 2020 it was planned to launch another “Soyuz-2.1b” also three “messengers”, and 2021-2022 were planning to launch six “Gontsov M” two missiles “Angara-1.2” three on each apparatus. Now, the first launch postponed to next year.
Launched satellites should become part of a global low-orbit satellite system “Gonets-D1M”, kotroraya designed to provide for communication and data transmission in remote areas, including the territory of the Far North. At present, the group consists of 12 satellites.
