Russia Orbits Military Satellite

File photo: Launch of a Soyuz-U military satellite from Baikonur. Photo courtesy of AFP.

by Staff Writers
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2006
A medium-class Soyuz-U carrier rocket has put a Cosmos satellite into orbit after being launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan Thursday, a spokesman for Russia's Space Forces said.

Alexei Kuznetsov said the satellite would enlarge the orbital military group.

He said the satellite had been put into orbit at 5:39 p.m. Moscow time [1:39 p.m. GMT] adding that all "systems were functioning properly."

Source: RIA Novosti

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