Russian Aerospace Forces launched the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle

From the State Test Cosmodrome of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk Region, combat crews of the Aerospace Forces of the Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft (SC) in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense. The launch of the carrier rocket and the launch of the spacecraft into the calculated orbit took place in the normal mode. After launch, the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle was taken for escort by means of the ground-based automated control complex of the Main Test Space Center named after German Titov. At the estimated time, the spacecraft was launched into the target orbit by the upper stage "Fregat" and accepted for control of ground-based facilities of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces. A stable telemetry connection has been established and maintained with the spacecraft. The onboard systems of the spacecraft are functioning normally. The spacecraft was assigned the serial number Kosmos-2564.

After the spacecraft was launched into orbit, officers of the Main Space Intelligence Center of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces entered information about it into the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System and began to analyze and process information about the new space object.