Soyuz-2.1b Launches Second Meteor-M, Six Smallsats

PARIS — A Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket with a Fregat upper stage carried a Russian weather satellite and six small spacecraft to orbit July 8, lifting off at 9:58 p.m. local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos. Built by Moscow-based JSC VNIIEM...

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