Russia Launches a Satellite To Study the Sun
Russia’s first space launch of 2009 is setting up a rare scientific mission for Moscow. Liftoff of the Tsyklon-3 rocket used to loft the 4,200-lb. Coronas-Photon spacecraft came at 8:30 a.m. EST Jan. 30 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, sending the satellite toward a 342-mi.-high semi...
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