On east, completed refueling of acceleration unit “Frigate” 17 June

Specialists of the Space Center “Eastern” (a branch of the center of exploitation of objects of ground-based space infrastructure) and the Scientific and Production Association of the name of S.A. Lavochkina (included in the state corporation “Roskosmos”) on the East cosmodrome successfully completed operations to refuel the overtaking block “frigate” components of fuel and compressed gases.

Acceleration unit is transported from the hall of the reference-neutralization station to the assembly and test case of spacecraft for preparing for the assembly of the Soyuz-2.1B rocket. “Profiter” is intended for a mission within a contract with a foreign customer with a cosmodrome East.

Running the fifth batch of 36 ONEB spacecraft from the East spacecraft will become the fifth fully commercial from the Eastern cosmodrome, implemented by the French company Arianespace for OneWeb from the Russian cosmodrome.

/Media reports.