Soyuz-2 to launch six Globalstar sats from Baikonur.

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    MOSCOW, July 12 (Itar-Tass) - A Soyuz-2-1A rocket carrier with six
U.S. satellites Globalstar-2 will be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome
on Tuesday.
    "The launch of a rocket carrier equipped with the Fregat booster is
scheduled for 06:40 Moscow time," a spokesman for the federal space agency
Roscosmos, Alexei Kuznetsov, told Itar-Tass.
    "The intended impact areas of the fist stage of Soyuz-2 will be
located in the Karaganda region (Kazakhstan), of a nose cone - in the East
Kazakhstan region or in Russia's Altai Territory or Republic of Altai, of
the second stage - in the East Kazakhstan region or in the Altai Territory
and of the third stage - in the Pacific Ocean," he said.
    The carrier rocket's flight at the launching phase will last 528
seconds. The total time from the rocket's launch to separation of
satellites from the booster will be 100 minutes.
    Initially, the launch was scheduled for July 11, but was postponed for techniqual reasons.