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Russia launches 73 satellites into orbit

July 16 , 2017 2719 days 1912 0
• Russia launched a rocket with 73 satellites and successfully placed them in orbit. • The Soyuz 2-1A rocket successfully lifted off with an imaging satellite and 72 micro-satellites. After 8 hours of travel, all satellites were placed in predetermined orbits. • For the first time in the world, such a complex and large mission has been developed and implemented. • The primary payload, the Kanopus-V-IK satellite, is to provide wide-angle images of the Earth and will be used especially to detect forest fires or to update the topography of maps. • The 72 small satellites include those made by Japan, Germany and Canada along with 62 nanosatellites known as CubeSats, developed by the United States.

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