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Russia Launches Soyuz Rocket With Military Satellites

© Sputnik / Maksim Blinov / Go to the mediabankThe launch of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket with a Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft
The launch of a Soyuz-2.1a rocket with a Soyuz MS-20 spacecraft - Sputnik International, 1920, 01.12.2022
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a military satellite from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

"On December 1, 2022, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome [Russia's Arkhangelsk region], a combat crew of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle with spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry," the ministry said in a statement.

It was the third launch in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry in one month. The previous launches took place on November 2 and 28, when other Russian military spacecraft were put into orbit.
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