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June 11, 2013

Soyuz Takes Russian Military Satellite to Orbit
Plesetsk, Russia(RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2013
A Soyuz-2.1B carrier rocket orbited a military satellite on Friday, the defense ministry's spokesman in charge of Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces said. The rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk launch site in Russia's north at 22:37 Moscow time on Friday. "The spacecraft separated from the third stage of the rocket as scheduled," Col. Dmitry Zenin said. According to previous reports, the satellite is the second in the new Persona series of electro-optical reconnaissance satellites bas ... read more

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