MOSCOW (Interfax) - Russia put a military satellite of the Kosmos series into orbit on Friday, the nation's newly chartered Space Force said.

A Kosmos-3M rocket carrying the Kosmos 2378 satellite was launched from the Russian state experimental space center Plesetsk at 7:08 p.m. Moscow time (4:08 p.m. GMT, 11:08 a.m. EDT).

All the solar panels and radio aerials of the satellite have unfolded and all its systems are operating normally, the Space Forces press service told Interfax.

The launch was originally scheduled for April 27, but was postponed due to technical reasons.

The failure occurred in the control system of stage two vernier engines, which was discovered by a crew in charge of preparing the rocket for launch. After specialists of the Polyot company from Omsk fixed the defect, the Kosmos-3M again underwent the whole cycle of pre-launch testing at the Plesetsk space center.