Moscow, 6 November: Three spacecraft will be launched from the Baykonur space centre in November. At the present time, units of the Russian Space Forces at Baykonur have begun preparations for the sixth launch of a Proton-K booster this year. The Proton to be launched on 23 November will put a satellite into orbit for the Russian Defence Ministry's needs. Autonomous tests of a booster are under way at an assembly and testing hangar at Baykonur, and the spacecraft is simultaneously being loaded with fuel components, the press service of the Russian Space Forces reported. On 26 November, a Progress M1-7 transport spaceship should be launched from Baykonur to the International Space Station. Its launch will be carried out by a modernized Soyuz-FG booster designed and manufactured at the Progress aerospace centre in Samara. The engines of the rocket's second and third stages have been modernized, and this will be the second launch of the modernized booster carried out by the Russian Aerospace Agency, Rosaviakosmos. The first one took place on 21 May of this year. The launch of a Zenit-2 booster produced by the Dnipropetrovsk Yuzhmash enterprise is preliminarily scheduled for 30 November. The rocket will put a Meteor-3M hydrometeorological spacecraft into orbit.