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Russian rocket launched from Kourou Cosmodrome.
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On July 10, 2014 at 18:55 UTC the Russian "Soyuz-ST-B” rocket-carrier was launched from Kourou launch site in French Guiana. The rocket equipped with the "Fregat” booster orbited four broadband communications satellites for O3b Networks a company based in Britain's Channel Islands with a mission to link developing countries via high-speed Internet. O3b's name is short for the "other 3 billion," referencing the approximate number of people without reliable, high-speed Internet connections.
