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Soyuz moves to pad for commercial mission

The Soyuz rocket with six second-generation satellites for the Globalstar mobile communications system rolled to launch pad 6 Saturday morning at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz is scheduled for liftoff Tuesday at 1710 GMT (1:10 p.m. EDT).

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