MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 23rd March, 2023) Russia has launched a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a military satellite from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
"On Thursday, March 23, at 09:40 (local time, 06:40 GMT), combat crews of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1a medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry from the State Test Cosmodrome of the Russian Defense Ministry (the Plesetsk cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk Region," the ministry said in a statement.
This was the fifth launch in the interests of the ministry in 2023.
