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Russian rocket launches Iranian satellite into orbit
Updated On: 01 March, 2024 07:45 AM IST | Moscow | Agencies
The Iranian state TV said the 110-kilogram (242-pound) satellite has three cameras to take images for environmental, agricultural and other purposes
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Soyuz-2.1b rocket carried the Iranian satellite and 18 Russian satellites into orbit. PIC/AP
A Russian rocket on Thursday successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlined increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Tehran.
Russia’s state-run Roscosmos corporation said that a Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Vostochny launch facility in the country’s far east to carry the Iranian satellite and 18 Russian satellites into orbit.
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