Dnepr booster lifts Minisatellite

Russia's Kosmotras organisation launched a Dnepr booster - a former SS-18 missile - from a silo at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on 21 April. The booster carried Surrey Satellite Technology's (SSTL) 350kg UoSAT 12 Minisatellite into a 650km, 65¼-inclination orbit.

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