A Russian rocket launched six US telecoms satelites into orbit from a missile base in the south of the country on Thursday, news agencies reported.
"The apparatuses have been put into orbit," Interfax news agency quoted an official in the strategic rocket forces as saying.
The Cosmos-3M rocket took off from the Kapustin Yar launch site with a payload of 1.07 tonnes, the news agency said.
© 2008 AFP
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