Soyuz with Russian satellite Resurs-P installed at Baikonur launch complex

Baikonur. March 29. KazTAG - The Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Earth remote sensing satellite "Resurs-P" was installed at the launch complex of site 31 of the cosmodrome.
“The Soyuz-2.1 rocket with the Resurs-P remote sensing satellite this morning at 7.30 local time was taken out along the cosmodrome’s railway line from assembly and testing building 40 and installed in launcher No. 6 of pad 31 in a vertical position,” he a source said.
After the maintenance farms were assembled, specialists from Russian rocket and space industry enterprises began work on the program for the first launch day.
“Within two days, specialists from the cosmodrome will conduct final checks of the systems of the launch complex and the launch vehicle,” the source said to the agency’s reporter.
The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the Resurs-P spacecraft is scheduled for March 29 at 14.36.45 Astana time.

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