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Soyuz rocket lifts off with Russian eavesdropping satellite

December 25, 2014 Stephen Clark

A satellite to collect intelligence for the Russian government launched Thursday on top of a Soyuz rocket and reached orbit a few minutes after liftoff from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome about 500 miles north of Moscow.