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Russia launches its first Arctic-monitoring satellite – Xinhua | English.news.cn – Xinhua
MOSCOW, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) — Russia successfully launched its first “Arktika-M” satellite on Sunday to monitor the Arctic’s climate and environment, the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said in a press release.
A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the satellite on board blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 09:55 a.m. Moscow time (0655 GMT), Roscosmos said.
The Arktika-M spacecraft was delivered to the orbit at 12:14 p.m. Moscow time (0914 GMT), it added.
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