Russia conducted a complex mission Friday to deploy seventy-three satellites via a Soyuz-2-1a rocket with a Fregat upper stage. Following liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 12:36 local time (06:36 UTC), the Fregat upper stage performed a series of burns over eight-and-a-half hours to inject its payloads into their planned polar orbits.
A Russian Soyuz-2-1b rocket suffered a rare pad abort during a launch attempt with the…
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