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Russia launches military satellite
Posted: Thu, May 17, 2012, 10:20 PM ET (0220 GMT)
A Soyuz rocket launched a Russian military satellite on Thursday. The Soyuz-U rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 11:05 am EDT (1505 GMT) Thursday and placed the Kosmos 2480 satellite into low Earth orbit. Russian officials provided no information about the satellite other than it is a military satellite, but Western observers believe it is a Kobalt-M reconnaissance satellite. The launch is the last for the Soyuz-U variant, which will be replaced for satellite launches by the Soyuz-2 rocket and the future Angara 3.
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