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Russia launches military communications satellite

Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 8:35 AM ET (1235 GMT)
Russia launched a military communications satellite Tuesday. A Soyuz-2.1a rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 8:48 am eDT (1248 GMT) and placed a Meridian-M satellite into orbit. The satellite is the latest in a series that provide military communications services from highly elliptical orbits and likely will replace one that recently failed.

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