Photos: Soyuz Rocket blasts off from Russia to deliver Military Mapping Satellite

A Soyuz 2-1A rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Thursday, successfully lifting the Bars-M No.2 mapping satellite to orbit in a nine-minute ascent mission taking the spacecraft to the expected Sun Synchronous Orbit.

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All Photos: Russian Ministry of Defence

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