Kosmos-3M booster-rocket launched from Plesetsk cosmodrome

A Kosmos-3M light-class booster-rocket with two space vehicles was launched from the Plesetsk state testing cosmodrome (in the north) on Monday at 10.36 Moscow time in the interests of the Ministry of Defence, the press service of the Space Forces of Russia (KVR) reported.

As the press service officials noted, after the spacecraft get separated from the second stage of the booster- rocket they will be given numbers - 2,390 and 2,391 respectively, and be put under control of the G.S. Titov State Space Means Control Centre of the Ministry of Defence.