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Amurskaya Pravda about the launch from Vostochny

Amurskaya Pravda about the launch from Vostochny
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Amurskaya Pravda about the launch from Vostochny
12.02.2018
«Luch» system

The successful launch of the carrier rocket "Soyuz-2.1 a" from the Vostochny kosmodrom on February 1 with the spacecraft "Canopus-V" № 3, 4, and nine foreign small satellites is widely reflected in the media.

The oldest newspaper of the Far East and the Amur region, the newspaper "Amurskaya Pravda" also reported this event on its pages. In the material about the launch of the "Soyuz" it paid attention to the work of JSC "Satellite system "Gonets" specialists, who worked at Vostochny in order to ensure backup communication channels and Internet access. They deployed a mobile satellite communications station MSRS "Loutch" which allowed representatives of the State Corporation "Roscosmos", invited persons and media to use the Internet access via a deployed Wi-Fi network, connected to the station.

The newspaper quotes one of employees of the company who mentioned about the prior mission of MSRS "Loutch" which is relaying data from space crafts on flight: "All for your comfort, with TV connections Internet connection you are provided — jokes specialist satellite system Gonets, Alexander Vinichenko. But, of course, first and foremost, our system is designed to support the spacecrafts and get the telemetry including the carrier rocket "Soyuz-2.1 a".

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