Russia Spiral 2011

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Uploaded by tigerofsiberia on Feb 26, 2011

Russia launched a new Glonass-K1 navigation satellite from Plesetsk space center atop Soyuz-2.1b with Fregat upper stage on February 26.

The Glonass-K, which has a service life of 10 years, will beam five navigation signals - four in the special L1 and L2 bands and one for civilian applications in the L3 band.

Video filmed by Alexey Trapeznikov, found at http://vkontakte.ru/video4108145_159972415