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Big glowing ball with four extending tails whizzed about the sky over the Russian Urals. The sight was actually a Meridian military communications satellite being blasted off into orbit. It's the fourth of its type launched by Russia to replace the ageing Molniya system. The country has more than 100 satellites hurtling around the earth.



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A Russian Meridian series military communications satellite has been put into a designated orbit, a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces said on Thursday.
A Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the Meridian 4 satellite lifted off from the Plesetsk space centre in northern Russia at 09.41 pm Moscow time (17:41 GMT) on Wednesday.
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Soyuz rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome carrying the Meridian IV satellite



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Space launch Soyuz rocket from Plesetsk Cosmodrome as seen from Ekaterinburg. Distance to launchpad is about 2000 km.



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The Meridian 4 reconnaissance satellite was successfully launched at 17:41 UT.



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2 37398 062.7957 077.8184 7243191 284.9762 067.3882 01.98348235    05


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The Meridian 4 reconnaissance satellite is scheduled to liftoff atop a Soyuz 2.1a-Fregat launch vehicle on the 4th May, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.



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