28 Jun 2012 09:26

Roscosmos sets five space launches for July

MOSCOW. July 28 (Interfax) - The federal space agency Roscosmos plans to carry out four space launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome and another from Plesetsk, Roscosmos spokesperson Anna Vedishcheva told Interfax-AVN.

"July will see the launches of the Sirius-5 satellite (July 7), the Soyuz TMA-25M space freighter on July 15, a cluster of Kanopus-B, BKA, MKA-FKI, ADS-1 and TET-1 satellites on July 22, and two satellites - Express-MD-2 and Telkom-3 - on July 25," she said.

All of these launches will be carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Vedishcheva said.