Russia Successfully Launches Two Satellites

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Russia Successfully Launches Two Satellites

The Russian Space Forces on Thursday successfully launched two satellites into orbit aboard a lightweight Cosmos-3M rocket.

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The Russian Space Forces on Thursday successfully launched two satellites into orbit aboard a lightweight Cosmos-3M rocket.

The light rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome in northwestern Russia, carrying an Algerian ALSat-1 satellite and a Russian Mozhayets satellite, Russian news agencies quoted a spokesman for the Russian Space Forces as saying.

The ALSat-1 satellite is set to monitor the environment by observing natural disasters and industrial accidents, and the Mozhayets satellite will be used as a learning tool by students of Russia's military space academy Mozhaysky, said the spokesman.

The two satellites weigh 90 kg each and are orbiting at a height of 700 km (435 miles) above the Earth, he added.

The successful launch came just two days after an Astra 1K telecommunications satellite failed to reach its orbit 36,000 km above the Earth after blasting into space from Kazakhstan aboard a Russian-made Proton rocket.

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