Russia launches two satellites
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Russia launched two Russian-Ukrainian Earth probing satellites from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at 14:20, Moscow time, on Friday.
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A Russian spaceship blasted off on  Friday carrying vital food and water to two astronauts whose  supplies have been rationed because they were running so low,  Interfax news agency reported.
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MOSCOW, December 27 (RIA Novosti) - A Cyclone-3 missile carrier produced in Ukraine that was launched with two Ukrainian satellites, Sich-1M and KS5MF2, by Russia&#39;s Space Forces last Friday from the Plesetsk launch site (the Arkhangelsk region
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American astronaut Mike Fincke, front , and Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Shargin, third, get off a plane at the Chkalovsky airport, just outside Moscow, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2004, while heading to Moscow&#39;s Star City, the home-base of Russia&#39;s space program.
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A recoverable science experimental satellite is launched atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu Province, northwest China Aug. 29, 2004.
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An unmanned rocket carrying three  Russian GLONASS navigation satellites took off from the Russian  cosmodrome at Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Friday, news agencies  reported.
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Russian military satellites will only be launched from the Plesetsk center, in the Arkhangelsk region, said Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov.
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Oct. 4, 2004, on the 47th anniversary of Russia&#39;s launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, history was again made in space.
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN  BEIJING - China's burgeoning space program has announced plans to launch its first astronomy satellite and participate in joint projects with Russia and France, state media reported Monday.
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The first test launch of a new rocket carrier, the Soyuz-2 (Rus), was carried out successfully today from the Plesetsk cosmodrome [in Arkhangelsk Region] at 2130 [Moscow time, 1830 gmt].
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A rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the international space station streaked into orbit on Thursday, the latest flight of a Russian space vehicle to fill in for grounded US shuttles.
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1st Ld-Writethru: Japan launches spy satellite with H-2A rocket    TOKYO, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Japan launched a spy satellite with an H-2A rocket on Monday from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan's Kagoshima prefecture, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
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Russia has launched three satellites to extend its version of the U.S. Global Positioning System to the entire Russian territory.
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MOSCOW. June 15 (Interfax-AVN) - A Russian-Ukrainian Dnepr launch vehicle, which is a converted RS-20B heavy strategic missile, has placed Germany's TerraSar-X radar satellite into its near Earth orbit, a Kosmotras company spokesman told Interfax-AVN.
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A Russian rocket carrying a US-Russian space crew on a two-day flight to the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Thursday.
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Russia successfully launched cargo ship Progress M-51 early Friday morning from the Baikonur launch pad to deliver food and other cargoes to the International Space Station (ISS).
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A Russian booster rocket carried a U.S. telecommunications satellite into space on Friday, officials said.