Russia made its first launch of 2018 Thursday, using a Soyuz-2-1a/Fregat-M rocket to deliver a pair of Kanopus-V satellites to orbit. Soyuz lifted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Eastern Russia at 11:07 Yakutsk Time (02:07 UTC), beginning a five-and-a-half-hour mission that will also include the deployment of nine secondary payloads.
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