At Baikonur started first day of the launch program "Soyuz / Kanopus-B / BKA".

In accordance with the State Commission at 5:30 GMT on July 19 of the assembly and test facility area 31 held the export of a space rocket «Soyuz-FG» with the upper block «Frigate» and Cluster of spacecrafts Russian "Kanopus-B, and MKA-FKI («Zond-PP»), Belarus BKA, TET-1 (Germany) and ADS-1B (Canada).

After the delivery of rocket with a block of five spacecraft at launch complex 31 area specialists of space-rocket industry of Russia completed its installation in a launch system and have begun to carry out operations on the program the first launch day.

Start of «Soyuz-FG» with «Fregat» and a cluster of five satellites is scheduled for July 22 at 10.41 Moscow time.