RT International The heavy-lift vehicle started off from Baikonur on Thursday carrying the Elektro-L spacecraft into geostationary orbit
Russia’s Roscosmos successfully launched a Proton-M rocket carrying the Elektro-L No.5 weather satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday. The liftoff occurred at 11:52 AM Moscow time, with the spacecraft set to reach geostationary orbit roughly six-and-a-half hours later.
The three-stage Proton-M, built by the Khrunichev Center, stands 57.6 metres tall and has a launch mass of 705 tonnes. Thursday’s mission marked the 430th launch in the Proton family’s six-decade history and the latest flight of the modernized Proton-M variant introduced in 2001.
The Elektro-L No.5 spacecraft, developed by NPO Lavochkin, is part of a next-generation meteorological satellite series designed to operate over 35,000 km above the Earth. Once in position, it will beam back round-the-clock images of the Earth in visible and infrared bands with a resolution of 1 and 4 km per pixel.
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