Rokot launches Blits-M and Gonets-M satellites

A Rokot launch vehicle, with a Briz-KM upper stage, launched the Blits-M and Gonets-M satellites from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, on 26 December 2019, at 23:11 UTC (27 December, at 02:11 local time). The Rokot liquid two-stage light rocket was designed at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center on the basis of the RS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile and is designed to launch small and medium spacecraft into solar-synchronous and near-polar orbits. This was the last launch of this