MOSCOW. May 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Tsiklon-2 carrier rocket was successfully launched from the Baikonur Space Center at 10 a.m. Moscow time (0700 GMT) on Friday.
"Today at 10 a.m. Moscow time (0700 GMT) joint crews of the Russian Space Forces and the Federal Space Agency successfully launched the Tsiklon-2 carrier rocket with the Kosmos military satellite from Baikonur," a Space Forces press-service official told Interfax-Military News Agency on Friday.
He emphasized that the rocket had been launched as planned.
"It is the 105th launch of the Tsiklon-2 carrier rocket, which carried this year's third spacecraft, launched by the Space Forces in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry," the official said.
He noted that the Kosmos satellite was designed to augment the orbital group of military satellites.
The Tsiklon-2 carrier rocket is a light rocket, designed to launch spacecraft with a weight of up to 3.2 tons to circular orbits. It is based on the R36 ICBM. The Tsiklon-2 carrier rocket has been developed by the Yuzhnoe Design Bureau, Ukraine, and manufactured by the Yuzhmash Scientific Industrial Association also based in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.