Russia sends military satellite into orbit

2009-11-20 15:54:54 GMT2009-11-20 23:54:54 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English

MOSCOW, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- Russia's Space Forces on Friday launched a Soyuz-U carrier rocket to deliver a Cosmos-series military satellite into space.

The booster rocket blasted off at 1:44 p.m. Moscow time (1044 GMT) from the Plesetsk space center in north Russia, Space Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency.

The satellite was placed in the target orbit about nine minutes after the launch, Zolotukhin said, adding that both the launch and the delivery went as planned.

Comos is the name of a series of satellites that have been launched since the Soviet Union era. The first of them was launched in March 1962.

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