MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 02nd May, 2019) The final launch of a satellite atop the Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the Russian Defense Ministry was tentatively scheduled for July 16, a source in the Russian aerospace industry told Sputnik on Thursday.
In mid-February, Deputy Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Igor Morozov, said that the final launch from Baikonur for the Defense Ministry will be held in 2019 after which all the launches for the military would be carried out from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
"The launch of Blagovest [satellite] will be carried out in mid-July. The tentatively scheduled date is July 16," the source said.
Another source told Sputnik in March that the military planned to complete the constellation of four Blagovest satellites with that launch. The first three satellites of the group were brought to the orbit in August 2017, April 2018 and December 2018.
According to the ISS-Reshetnev Company, the manufacturer of Blagovest, the satellites were designed to provide high-speed internet access, communication services and television and radio broadcasting to the military.
