MOSCOW. July 3 (Interfax) - Satellites of the United States, Finland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Sweden, and several other countries will be launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome with the Russian Meteor-M No. 2-2 meteorological satellite as an additional payload on Friday, and the military is permitted to engage its personnel in ensuring the take off.
The Russian governmental decree, which permits the Russian Defense Ministry to use spacecraft and military space complexes on a contractual basis and to attract servicemen to provide for the liftoff of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle carrying the Meteor-M No. 2-2 satellite and several dozen foreign satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, was published on the official online database of legal information on Wednesday.
Among the satellites to be launched are eight designed for collecting the data of the U.S. LEMUR maritime Automatic Identification System and the U.S. Momentus X1 satellite. Finnish remote sensing satellites, the British DOT-1 satellite, the Israeli NSLSat-1 satellite, as well as satellites of Sweden, Germany, France, Ecuador, the Czech Republic, and Estonia are to be put into orbit along with the Meteor-M satellite.
The Soyuz-2.1b launch with a Frigate booster carrying the Russian Meteor-M No. 2-2 meteorological satellite and with an additional payload is scheduled from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on July 5, 2019.