Russia launches satellite for Iran toward orbit alongside 2 space weather probes

Two Russian space weather satellites are on their way to orbit, along with an Iranian spacecraft and a passel of cubesats. A Soyuz 2.1b rocket lifted off from Vostochny Cosmodrome in Siberia today (July 25) at 1:54 a.m. EDT (0554 GMT; 8:54 a.m. Moscow time), carrying Russia's Ionosfera-M 3 and 4 satellites toward Earth orbit. The Soyuz also carried 18 secondary payloads, according to RussianSpaceWeb.com, including an Iranian communications satellite called Nahid-2. More

(Source: Space.com - Jul 26)