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A Soyuz-2.1b rocket takes off Feb. 2 with a Lotos military intelligence-gathering satellite. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defense Russia sent a spy satellite into orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket Feb. 2 from a snowy launch pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, setting off on a mission to detect, locate, and characterize foreign military radio signals. The…