MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. The military satellite launched aboard a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport has been delivered into its target orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.

"The launch of the carrier rocket and the satellite’s insertion into its target orbit proceeded normally. After liftoff, the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket was tracked by the ground-based automated control system of the Titov Main Test Space Center. The satellite was delivered into its target orbit at the designated time and placed under the control of ground-based facilities of the Aerospace Forces," the statement reads.

Earlier on Saturday, Russia’s Space Troops successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket carrying a military satellite from the Plesetsk spaceport in Russia's northern Arkhangelsk Region.