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Soyuz rocket lifts off with six satellites
BY SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: October 20, 2010

Launching into a partly cloudy night sky, a Soyuz rocket blasts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1710 GMT (1:10 p.m. EDT) Tuesday with six satellites to rejuvenate the orbiting fleet of the Globalstar mobile communications network.


Photo credit: S. Sergeev/Yuzhny Space Center/Roscosmos


Photo credit: S. Sergeev/Yuzhny Space Center/Roscosmos


Photo credit: S. Sergeev/Yuzhny Space Center/Roscosmos


Photo credit: S. Sergeev/Yuzhny Space Center/Roscosmos


Photo credit: S. Sergeev/Yuzhny Space Center/Roscosmos


Photo credit: S. Sergeev/Yuzhny Space Center/Roscosmos


Photo credit: Arianespace