Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Russia Launches New Military Satellite

An Interfax newswire article, via Space.com, reports that:

The Russian Space Forces launched a Kosmos-3M rocket carrying a military satellite from the Plesetsk space center on Tuesday, Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces, told Russia's Interfax News Agency.

The satellite will serve the Russian Defense Ministry's purposes and will join the Russian military satellite constellation, he said.

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