MOSCOW, August 6. /TASS/. Russia has successfully accepted Elektro-L No. 5 weather satellite for operation in the Elektro-L satellite cluster, the State Space Corporation Roscosmos reported.

"Work has been completed to check the technical condition of Elektro-L No. 5 hydrometeorological space vehicle stationed at 76 degrees east longitude in a geostationary orbit. The satellite has been successfully accepted for operation within the space system of the same name," Roscosmos said in a statement.

Currently, the satellites Elektro-L No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 constitute the Russian orbital weather satellite cluster. The satellite Elektro-L No. 5 was orbited in mid-February at an altitude of 35,406 km, with its working orbit located at an altitude of 35,786 km above Earth.

Currently, two satellites, Elektro-L No. 5 and Elektro-L No. 3 are operating at the standing point of 76 degrees east longitude. Roscosmos specified that it might decide later to move the satellite Elektro-L No. 3 to the standing point of 14.5 degrees west longitude where the satellite Elektro-L No. 2 is currently operating after exceeding its active service term.

Elektro-L weather satellites placed in a geostationary orbit help receive and process multispectral images of clouds and the underlying surface of the entire observable disk of Earth, obtain hydrometeorological data in orbit, perform the telecommunications functions of spreading and exchanging hydrometeorological and helio-geophysical data and relay signals from emergency radio beacons of the Cospas-Sarsat system.