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Russia launches communications satellite

Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2010, 7:05 AM ET (1105 GMT)
A Soyuz 2 rocket launched a Russian military communications satellite on Tuesday. The Soyuz 2-1a rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia at 8:59 pm EDT Monday (0059 GMT Tuesday) and placed a Meridian satellite into an elliptical, inclined Molniya orbit. The satellite is designed to provide communications services to ships and aircraft in polar regions not well served by geosynchronous communications satellites.

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