MOSCOW. December 21. /TASS/. Soyuz-2.1b rocket successfully orbited a military satellite, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
"The spacecraft has entered the final orbit and was accepted for control by the ground means of the Space Forces. Sustainable telemetric communications are maintained with the spacecraft. Onboard systems are operating normally," it said.
The Main center of space intelligence has entered the satellite into the catalogue of space objects of the Russian space control system.