Roscosmos Plans To Double Number Of Launches In 2019 - Press Service

Roscosmos Plans to Double Number of Launches in 2019 - Press Service

Russian space agency Roscosmos Monday announced plans to conduct 45 missile launches in 2019, which is twice as many as in 2018

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 14th January, 2019) Russian space agency Roscosmos Monday announced plans to conduct 45 missile launches in 2019, which is twice as many as in 2018.

"The plan for 2019: 45 launches including scientific and test [launches]. Twice more than last [year]," Roscosmos said in a video posted on its website.

At the end of December, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said that Russia conducted 22 space launches in 2018, while two launches from the Plesetsk cosmodrome had not previously been declared by the Russian Defense Ministry.