Union with satellites of 18 countries started from Baikonur

The Soyuz 2.1.a launch vehicle was launched with a South Korean satellite and a group of payloads from 18 countries.

Today, March 22, a Soyuz rocket with a South Korean satellite and a group of payloads from 18 countries was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This is reported by Roskosmos.

“On March 22, 2021 at 09:07:12 Moscow time, a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage and 38 foreign spacecraft was launched from the No. 6 launcher at the No. 31 site of the cosmodrome. from Baikonur. “says the message.

The Upper Stage Fregat will put 38 satellites from 18 countries into orbit.

In particular, the remote sensing spacecraft of the Earth CAS500-1 (South Korea), the apparatus to eliminate “space debris” ELSA-d (Japan), the small device of Saudi Arabia to obtain images of the Earth and provide communications NAJM-1, communication satellites of the Technical University of Berlin …

The launch was scheduled for Saturday, March 20, but 38 minutes before kickoff it was postponed to a backup date.

It was previously reported that NASA simulated the launch by firing up the main stage engines of the Space Launch System rocket at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

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