Moscow-Sana
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced that it had set a new record for the number of Russian satellites launched into space at once.
Roscosmos said in a statement today, according to Russia Today: “All 17 satellites that we launched on August 9 with a Soyuz 2.1B rocket reached their required orbits and were controlled and contacted from ground centers,” noting that the launch of this quantity of satellites at once. It was a new record in the space industry.
According to Roscosmos, the mentioned Russian satellites were developed in cooperation between the country's space industry companies and a number of universities, schools and educational institutions, and this cooperation between these institutions is supposed to result in the development of about 100 nano-satellites to be launched into Earth's orbits.
On the ninth of this month, Roscosmos announced the launch of a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, noting that the rocket carried an Iranian satellite and 16 small Russian satellites into Earth orbits.
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