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Rokot carrier rocket launched from Plesetsk spaceport

The launch vehicle carried three European satellites

MOSCOW, November 22. /ITAR-TASS/. The Rokot carrier rocket with the Briz-KM upper stage and three Swarm satellites of the European Space Agency (ESA) was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome on Friday, the Aerospace Defence Forces (ADF) told Itar-Tass.

“The launch of the Rokot rocket with the Briz-KM upper stage and three European satellites of the Swarm series was carried out at 16:02 Moscow time (12:02 GMT) from the third launch platform of pad No 3 of the Plesetsk cosmodrome,” an ADF official said.