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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
Almaty, February 12 (Xinhua) — Russia successfully launched the Elektro-L No. 5 hydrometeorological satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, the Roscosmos state corporation announced.
The satellite was launched at 11:52 Moscow time using a Proton-M launch vehicle. It took 6 hours and 37 minutes to place the satellite into geostationary orbit at an altitude of over 35,000 km.
The Electro-L hydrometeorological satellites allow for the acquisition and processing of multispectral images of clouds and the underlying Earth's surface within the entire observable disk of the Earth, as well as the acquisition of hydrometeorological data in orbit.
The launch of the spacecraft from Baikonur was originally scheduled for December 2025. According to Roscosmos, the launch was postponed to February 2026 due to technical problems with the upper stage. –0–
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