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  • Soyuz rocket lifts off with 73 satellites

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    Updated at 0830 GMT (4:30 a.m. EDT) with Kanopus-V-IK separation. Updated at 1600 GMT (11 a.m. EDT) with mission success. A Russian Soyuz booster lifted off Friday from Kazakhstan on a complex mission to deploy 73 satellites into three different orbits, including a Russian spacecraft to locate forest fires, 48 CubeSats for Planet’s global Earth…

  • Soyuz rolled out for launch of multinational satellite cluster

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    A Soyuz rocket arrived at a launch pad Tuesday in Kazakhstan for liftoff later this week with a satellite to monitor natural disasters and track forest fires from orbit and 72 secondary payloads from Russia, the United States, Germany, Norway and Japan. The Russian launcher’s blastoff is timed for 0636:49 GMT (2:36:49 a.m. EDT; 12:36:49…