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Soyuz launch vehicle carries Meridian satellite to orbit

A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle carrying the Meridian satellite blasted off Plesetsk at 4:08 p.m. Moscow time on Friday

MOSCOW, December 23 (Itar-Tass) —— A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle carrying the Meridian satellite blasted off Plesetsk at 4:08 p.m. Moscow time on Friday, Aerospace Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin told Itar-Tass.