The Russian Aerospace Forces have successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a military satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, the Defence Ministry said.
"At 1:22 a.m. Moscow time on Monday, March 3, a combat crew of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b medium-class rocket carrying an orbital vehicle in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry from the Russian Defence Ministry's State Test Cosmodrome (Plesetsk Cosmodrome) in the Arkhangelsk Region," it said.
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