[FPSPACE] Russia launches a trio of GLONASS satellites

[Anatoly Zak]

According to Khrunichev, a Proton rocket completed another successful
mission delivering a trio of GLONASS satellites into orbit. It looks like
with three more launches of navsats scheduled for 2010, Russia is on track
to return this constellation to its full operational capacity for the first
time since 1995:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/uragan.html

Beautiful photos of today's liftoff were posted here:

http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=8582

Anatoly Zak