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Moscow launches the first satellite of its ambitious Sfera project

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Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b rocket with three Gonets-M satellites and the first demonstration satellite of the federal Sfera project, Skif-D, from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region of the Russian Far East on Saturday. According to Roscosmos, the 3 Gonets-M satellites and the Skif-2 satellite are already in orbit. The space agency Roscosmos specified that this is the first launch of a carrier rocket of the Soyuz-2 group, loaded with a new ecological fuel called naphthyl.