A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a Fregat upper stage lifted off from the Vostochny spaceport in the Russian Far East at 6:18 p.m. EST on Monday (2318 GMT; or 2:18 a.m. on Nov. 5 local time).

VOSTOCHNY COSMODROME /Amur Region/, October 22. /TASS/. The nose cone in the Fregat upper stage carrying three Gonets-M satellites and a Skif-D module has separated from the third stage of the ...

The Fregat booster was developed in the 1990s on the basis of the propulsion unit of the Fobos automated inter-planetary station MOSCOW, January 31. /TASS/. Russia’s Lavochkin Research and ...