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Russia: we could launch a new version of Soyuz in 2012

Moscow, Russia - Soyuz 2-1V as a new one of carrier rocket

The commander of the Russian Space Forces Oleg Ostapenko said yesterday that Russia is ready to launch a light version of the Soyuz carrier rocket from 2012. "We will be ready to make this launch at the end of 2011 or the first quarter of 2012", Ostapenko said, adding that the rocket will be ready for the assembly in the plant of the Progress design bureau in Samara in the Volga region. Soyuz 2-1V,...

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Rome, Italy, 04/22/2011 14:06
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