A Rockot launch vehicle rumbled into the night sky over Russia on Tuesday, lifting into orbit Europe’s Sentinel-3A satellite, joining the Copernicus Earth Observation Program as the constellation’s most heavily instrumented satellite launched to date.
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Europe’s Copernicus Earth Observation Satellite Constellation is looking forward to its next addition on Tuesday when the program’s most comprehensive satellite to date rumbles into orbit atop a converted Soviet-era ballistic missile.
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Russia became the third country to send a navigation satellite into orbit this week when a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 0:21 UTC on Sunday on a critical mission to replenish Russia’s Glonass Satellite Navigation Constellation.
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A Soyuz 2-1B rocket lifted off from the Plestsk Cosmodrome on Sunday, embarking on a three-and-a-half-hour mission to replenish the Glonass Navigation Satellite Constellation.
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A Soyuz 2-1B rocket lifted off from the Plestsk Cosmodrome on Sunday, embarking on a three-and-a-half-hour mission to replenish the Glonass Navigation Satellite Constellation.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket thundered into the night skies over the country’s prime military launch site Saturday night, lifting off with a Glonass-M navigation satellite to replenish the Glonass satellite constellation in orbit 19,000 Kilometers above Earth.
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Russia’s Soyuz rocket is set to conduct its year-opening launch Saturday night from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, carrying a Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit.
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In the wake of Saturday’s Soyuz 2-1v launch with a pair of Russian military satellites, media reports emerged on Sunday, claiming that one of the two satellites failed to separate from the rocket’s Volga upper stage.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1v rocket blasts off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on December 5, 2015 to embark on its second flight, carrying the Kanopus ST satellite for the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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Russia’s Soyuz 2-1v rocket made its second flight on Saturday, blasting off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 14:09 UTC to deliver the hush-hush Kanopus ST satellite to orbit for the Russian Ministry of Defence.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1v rocket is set for liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Saturday after its launch was delayed on Friday due to technical issues with the payload. Hidden under the payload fairing of the Soyuz rocket is the Kanopus ST ocean and weather research satellite that is to become a part of the Kanopus program serving a dual role under military and civilian operation.
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A Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 6:34 UTC on Tuesday, carrying into orbit the first Tundra EKS Missile Early Warning Satellite, marking the start of the closure of a critical gap in Russia’s early detection system for incoming ballistic missiles.
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