Soyuz-2 launches weather satellite
Posted: Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 2:03 PM ET (1903 GMT) Russia launched a weather satellite Saturday. A Soyuz-2.1b rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 4:18 am EST (0918 GMT) and placed the Arktika-M No. 2 satellite into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit. The satellite joins a similar one launched in 2021 to monitor conditions in the Arctic.
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