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Soyuz rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan
BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: July 13, 2011


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A Soyuz rocket blasted off at 0227 GMT Wednesday (10:27 p.m. EDT Tuesday) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It successfully delivered six Globalstar mobile communications satellites to a 572-mile-high orbit less than two hours later. Photos: Roscosmos