MOSCOW, April 19 (Itar-Tass) - RIA Novosti. Ground resources of the Russian Defense Ministry took control of a military spacecraft launched on the eve of Baikonur, the press service of the military department told journalists on Thursday.

"The spacecraft launched in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry from the Baikonur cosmodrome was put into the target orbit at the estimated time and adopted for control of ground forces of the Space Forces of the Air and Space Forces," the ministry said.

A stable telemetry connection is established and maintained with the satellite. The on-board systems of the device function normally, the Defense Ministry said.

"After taking control of the spacecraft assigned the serial number" Cosmos-2526 ", - noted in the military department.

The launch of the Proton-M rocket was successfully held at 01:12 Moscow time. At 01:22 Moscow time, the main part of the rocket as part of the Breeze-M upper stage with the spacecraft was completely separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle.

Link: https://ria.ru/space/20180419/1518962548.html