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Russia launches 73 satellites in one go, second most ever
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Saturday, 15 July, 2017
Russian space agency Roscosmos on Friday successfully launched 'Kanopus-V-IK' Earth-imaging satellite and 72 microsatellites into orbit on a single rocket. This comes after ISRO launched a world record 104 satellites at once earlier this year, breaking Russia's previous record of 37 satellites. The microsatellites include 62 CubeSats developed by US and others made by Japan, Germany, and Canada.
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