MOSCOW. July 8 (Interfax-AVN) - A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle powered by a Fregat booster and coupled with the Meteor-M weather satellite and six micro-satellites will take off from the Baikonur space center on Tuesday evening, a source in the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) told Interfax-AVN.
"The rocket launch is due at 7:58 p.m. Moscow time on Tuesday. It will be a cluster launch of the Meteor-M weather satellite and six micro-satellites," the Roscosmos representative said.