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The Russian Aerospace Forces, itself a division of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,…

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The Russian Aerospace Forces, itself a division of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, has launched a Lotos reconnaissance satellite to compliment their next-generation Liana SIGINT (signal intelligence) satellite system. Liftoff took place at around 20:45 UTC (15:45 EST) on Tuesday, 2 February 2021, from Site 43 at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome – located 800 kilometers north of Moscow.
This was the first orbital launch attempt of the year for the Russian Federation, and the first flight of the…

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