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Russia launched a military satellite.
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On May 17, 2012 at 14:05 UTC the Russian "Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The rocket orbited the "Kosmos-2480” clandestine photo surveillance satellite designed to collect intelligence on strategic sites around the world for defense purposes.