Russia Launches Soyuz-FG Rocket with Five Satellites

Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket. Photo courtesy RIA Novosti.

Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with a group of five satellites on board has blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Sunday. "The launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket took place in a normal regime," the spokesman said.
The rocket will deliver the Russian satellites Canopus-B and MKA-PN1, a Belarusian BKA satellite, the Canadian ADS-1B and German TET-1 into orbit.


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