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Soyuz launches Gonets satellites
Posted: Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 12:10 PM ET (1710 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a trio of communications satellites Wednesday night. The Soyuz-2.1b lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 8:14 pm Wednesday (0114 GMT Thursday), placing three Gonets-M satellites into a 1,400-kilometer near-polar orbit. The satellites are part of a constellation that provides store-and-forward communications services.
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