May 15, 2019

On May 14, the “Fregat” upper stage arrived at the Vostochny space center.

Specialists of the Vostochny Space Center (TSENKI company branch) performed its acceptance at the Technical Complex, the upper stage was unloaded in the units warehouse.

On May 15, the “Fregat” upper stage will be transported to the Assembly and Testing building of spacecrafts and installed at the workplace for further testing.

In the near future, the cosmodrome is awaiting the arrival of the “Meteor-M” № 2-2 spacecraft.

The units of the “Soyuz-2.1b” launch vehicle are in storage mode in the Assembly and Testing building of the launch vehicle, the head part – in the Assembly and Testing building of the spacecrafts.

To perform works on the preparation of units at the Technical Complex all systems are in a readiness mode, the necessary documents are issued.

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