MOSCOW (Sputnik) — A Soyuz-2.1v carrier rocket blasted off Friday from the Plesetsk space center with the Russian Defense Ministry's spacecraft on board, the ministry said.
"On Friday, June 23, at 21:04 Moscow time, from launching platform No. 4 of site No. 43 of the State Test Cosmodrome Plesetsk, a Russian Aerospace Forces… crew successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1v light carrier rocket with a spacecraft in the interests of Russia's Defense Ministry," it told reporters.
The blastoff occurred in normal mode, the ministry said.
