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Russia has successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome carrying a spacecraft for the Russian Defense Ministry, the ministry said on Saturday.

“A Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle carrying a spacecraft for the Russian Defense Ministry was successfully launched by a space forces crew of the aerospace forces from the defense ministry’s Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region,” the ministry said.

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© Sputnik / Russian space agency RoscosmosSoyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage and the first Arktika-M satellite is transported from an assembling hangar to a launchpad ahead of its upcoming launch, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome carrying a spacecraft for the Russian Defense Ministry, the ministry said on Saturday.

“A Soyuz-2.1b medium-class launch vehicle carrying a spacecraft for the Russian Defense Ministry was successfully launched by a space forces crew of the aerospace forces from the defense ministry’s Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region,” the ministry said.

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