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Rokot launch vehicle with 3 military satellites set off from Plesetsk spaceport

The calculated time of the three satellites’ placement into the final transfer orbit is 11:12 Moscow time (07:12 GMT) on May 23
Rokot carrier rocket at the Plesents spaceport (archive) ITAR-TASS/Andrei Morgunov
Rokot carrier rocket at the Plesents spaceport (archive)
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MOSCOW, May 23. /ITAR-TASS/. The Rokot launch vehicle with a batch of military satellites has been set off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry’s Aerospace Defense Forces Colonel Valery Zolotukhin told ITAR-TASS on Friday.