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Russia will launch three satellites and supplies for the international space station (ISS) over the next month, the Russian space agency said Thursday. On June 17, the spacecraft Progress M-53 will be launched with 2.5 tonnes of supplies on a Soyuz-U rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which celebrated its 50th anniversary on Thursday, an agency spokesman told ITAR-TASS news agency. Two astronauts, Russian Sergei Krikalev and American John Phillips, have been aboard the ISS since April 17. Four days later, a military satellite Monia 3K will be put in orbit by a Molnia-M rocket from the Plessetsk launch site in north-west Russia. On the same day another satellite will be launched on a Volna rocket fired from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea in northern Russia. On June 23, a telecommunications satellite express-AMS will be put in orbit by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
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