The Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Meteor-M No. 2-4 weather satellite and 18 smaller satellites has blasted off from the Vostochny spaceport, according to a Roscosmos broadcast.
The Meteor-M satellite is designed to explore the Earth's natural resources, monitor the helio-geophysical situation in near-Earth space and receive information from automatic data collection measurement platforms. The spacecraft is also equipped with the tools of the COSPAS-SARSAT search and rescue system.
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