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  • Rockot launches Russian military satellites

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    Rockot lifts off Friday with three Rodnik satellites. Credit: Khrunichev 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 (800 kilometers) north of Moscow. The 95-foot-tall (29-meter) rocket fired out of a launcher tube at 0227 GMT Friday…