Strela – Spaceflight Now

December 5, 2022

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Rockot launches Russian military satellites

November 30, 2018

A Rockot booster and Breeze upper stage delivered three Russian military communications satellites to orbit Friday after a launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome around 500 miles north of Moscow.

Russian-built spy satellite rockets out of underground silo

December 19, 2014

A Strela rocket carrying a Russian-built radar surveillance satellite built for an undisclosed foreign customer sprung out of an underground silo in Kazakhstan and fired into orbit Friday.