Zenit-2 launches military satellite from Baikonur

RUSSIA LAUNCHED a military satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan yesterday aboard a Zenit-2 rocket. Designated Cosmos 2372, the satellite was described in press accounts from Moscow as a communications relay. It lifted off from Baikonur at 6:10 a.m. EDT, and reached its initial orbit...

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