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Russia launches classified satellite

Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2018, 9:50 AM ET (1350 GMT)
Russia launched a military satellite Thursday. A Soyuz-2.1v lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 1:38 pm EDT (1738 GMT) carrying a satellite identified only as Cosmos 2525. Few details about the satellite are known, but some speculate it is a demonstration mission for a planned series of imaging satellites.

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