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New Russian military satellite into orbit

Moscow, Russia - Russian Ministry of Defence has resorted to a Tsiklon rocket carrier for the 105th time

A new Tsiklon-2 rocket has been successfully launched today at 10:00 (Moscow local time) in order to put into orbit a military satellite. Russia wants to increase the number of satellite devices aimed to military tasks, and national Ministry of Defence has decided to resort to this carrier thanks to its reliability. Today launch in fact is the 105th among those performed by a Tsiklon rocket, which...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 63953
Rome, Italy, 05/28/2004 15:48
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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