Delayed Zenit orbits Resurs 01, six foreign piggyback satellites

Russia used a Zenit rocket early Friday to launch the Resurs 01 Earth remote sensing satellite and six smaller piggyback satellites provided by foreign researchers. Liftoff of the delayed mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan came at 10:30 a.m. Moscow time (3:30 a.m. EDT), putting the...

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