MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Russia’s Space Troops have successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport with a spacecraft in the Russian Defense Ministry’s interests, the ministry reported.
"At 5:40 a.m. Moscow time [2:40 a.m. GMT] on Monday, August 24, a combat team of the Aerospace Forces’ Space Troops successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class carrier rocket with a space vehicle in the interests of the Defense Ministry of Russia from the Defense Ministry’s State Test Cosmodrome (the Plesetsk spaceport) in the Arkhangelsk Region," the report said.
Nearly 270 Ukrainian drones taken down over Russian regions during dayRussian air defense systems intercepted and destroyed Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles over Crimea, the Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kaluga, Kursk, Oryol, Rostov, Smolensk, Tula, Moscow, and Krasnodar Regions, and the Black Sea, he Russian defense ministry saidRead more
