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Russia: launched Coronas-Photon satellite

Moscow, Russia - It will study the connections between the solar processes and the Earth

Russia has successfully launched its first carrier rocket of 2009, putting a Coronas-Photon research satellite into orbit, a Mission Control spokesman said Friday. The launch of the Cyclone-3 rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia. The Coronas-Photon satellite, designed to study solar processes, is the third of three to study the Sun from near-Earth orbit under Russia's Coronas...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1099455
Rome, Italy, 02/05/2009 17:47
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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