UPDATE - Launch Of S.Korean Satellite CAS500-1 By Soyuz-2.1a Set For November - Sputnix Company

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 04th August, 2020) The launch of South Korea's Earth observation satellite CAS500-1 by the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center is scheduled for November 2020, Russian private company Sputnix reported on its website.

It said three small technological satellites, two of them for remote sensing of the Earth, developed by the company, were scheduled to be sent into orbit in November.

In March, Sputnix Director General Vladislav Ivanenko told Sputnik the satellites were to be launched jointly with the CAS500-1. The launch was then planned for September 2020.

The contracts for the launch of two South Korean satellites were announced by Russian Roscosmos state space corporation subsidiary Glavkosmos in August 2017.

They are to be launched into orbit by Soyuz-2.1a carrier rockets with Fregat upper stages. The CAS500-1 satellite is launched for the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the CAS500-2 satellite is launched for the Korea Aerospace Industries.