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Russia successfully launched GLONASS navigation system's satellite

Moscow, Russia - With a Soyuz-2 rocket

Another satellite of GLONASS navigation system has been successfully launched in the early hours of today from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 800 km north of Moscow: the Russian authorities and the space agency Roscosmos announced it; Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said that Russia has "Successfully completed the launch of a Soyuz-2 rocket with the GLONASS-M [satellite] at 00:15" Moscow time, 2015 GMT. Today's...

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