MOSCOW, November 21. /ITAR-TASS/. The heavy Dnepr rocket, a converted ICBM, has placed 23 small foreign-commissioned spacecraft in near Earth orbit, Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
“At 11:26 Moscow time (07:26 GMT) today the Dnepr rocket successfully placed into orbit 23 satellites,” it said.