Tag: Kosmos 2517

The Rockot launcher with the GEO-IK 2 geodesy satellite blasted off at 1400 GMT (10 a.m. EDT; 5 p.m. Moscow time) Saturday. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense A Russian military spacecraft designed to map variations in Earth’s gravity field, rotation and tectonic movement reached orbit Sunday after a launch aboard a modified Soviet-era missile that…