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Russia to launch nine satellites in June
MOSCOW (AFP) May 15, 2003
Russia is to launch nine satellites in late June from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome in northwestern Russia, space officials said Thursday as quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency.

Russia's lightweight Rokot rocket will carry the Canadian Space Agency's Bridge satellite, the Mimoza satellite owned by the Czech Academy of Aciences, a Russian Monitor-E space complex model and six small Japanese satellites.

The Rokot, developed on the basis of an intercontinental ballistic missile RS-18, was first launched in March 2002.

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