As we have , today, May 27, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket with the Glonass-M navigation satellite was successfully launched. It turned out that this carrier was struck by lightning in the first seconds of the flight.
“Congratulations to the command of the Space Forces, the combat crew of the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the teams of the Progress Space Center (Samara), the NPO named after S.A. Lavochkin (Khimki) and the ISS named after Academician M.F. Reshetnev (Zheleznogorsk) on the successful launch of the GLONASS spacecraft! Lightning is not a hindrance to you, ”Dmitry Rogozin, head of Roscosmos, wrote on his Twitter blog, attaching a video of the atmospheric phenomenon.
Congratulations to the command of the Space Forces, the combat crew of the Plesetsk cosmodrome, the teams of the Progress RCC (Samara), the Lavochkin Research and Production Association (Khimki) and the Academician MF Reshetnev ISS (Zheleznogorsk) on the successful launch of the GLONASS spacecraft!
Lightning is not a hindrance- Dmitry Rogozin (@Rogozin)
Despite the lightning strike, the launch of the carrier rocket and the launch of the Glonass-M spacecraft into the calculated orbit proceeded in the normal mode. As part of the launch campaign, the Fregat upper stage was used.
At present, a stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft. The onboard systems of the Glonass-M satellite are functioning normally.
The current launch was the first launch of a space rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in 2019. The GLONASS-M spacecraft launched into orbit has replenished the orbital constellation of the Russian global navigation satellite system GLONASS. Now the new satellite is at the stage of entering into the system.
Source: 3dnews.ru