On March 25, 2015 at 22:08 UTC (March 26 at 01:08 Moscow time) a Soviet-era "Dnepr” ballistic missile blasted off from southern Russia. The "Dnepr” rocket launched from an underground silo at a space base near Yasny, Russia, a small community in the Orenburg region in the southern part of the country. The launch was performed by Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation in according to the agreement with Kosmotras, a Moscow-based company with joint Russian-Ukrainian ownership that oversees the commercial exploitation of the Dnepr rocket. The rocket orbited the “KompSat-3A” (Korean Multi-purpose Satellite 3) Earth observation satellite.