Soyuz carrier rocket places military satellite on target orbit
The Soyuz-U carrier rocket that was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome on Thursday has successfully placed on target orbit a Kosmos satellite in the interests of the Russian Defence Ministry. Read more
A Soyuz U rocket is scheduled to launch the military Kosmos 2480 optical information gathering satellite from the Plesetsk launch facility at 14:00 GMT, 17th May, 2012.