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From Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the Russian Soyuz 2.1B rocket blasts into space carrying 36 new satellites, from British operator OneWeb. IMAGES
Moscow (Russia), March 22 (EFE), (Camera: Handout).- Russia on Monday launched a Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket with 38 nanosatellites from 18 different countries from its Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Roscosmos, the country’s space agency, said.The Fregat booster, which hosted the devices, was initially scheduled for take-off on Saturday but was postponed 48 hours due to issues in the booster’s systems. The launch on Monday was broadcast live by the space agency.Among the devices onboard the Soyuz was the South Korean CAS500-1 remote sensing spacecraft. Others included Japan’s ELSA-d space debris removing machine and Saudi Arabia’s NAJM-1 Earth imaging spacecraft, according to Russia’s Tass news agency.Also hitching a ride into orbit was the first of two small devices to be sent up by authorities in the Spanish region of Catalonia.VIDEO COURTESY OF ROSCOSMOS. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO SALES
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying 38 foreign satellites after takeoff was twice postponed due to technical issues, Russian space agency Roscosmos says. Video published by the Russian space agency shows the Soyuz blaster launching against grey and cloudy skies at 0607 GMT. IMAGES
Russia on Thursday successfully launched 11 satellites from its Vostochny cosmodrome, in the third rocket liftoff from the new spaceport, the space agency said. The country's first orbital launch of 2018 came after a similar liftoff from the cosmodrome in eastern Russia ended in embarrassment, with officials losing contact with a string of satellites last November. IMAGES
A Soyuz-MS 02 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, bound for the International Space Station. The spacecraft is carrying Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov, Kazakh cosmonaut Andrei Borisenko, and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who will spend four months aboard the ISS to conduct experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science before returning home in February.