Soyuz rocket launches with demo satellite for Russian internet constellation

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome at 3:57 p.m. EDT (1957 GMT) Saturday with three Gonets data relay payloads and a demonstrator spacecraft for a proposed constellation of Russian broadband internet satellites. The three-stage Soyuz-2.1b rocket, topped by a Fregat upper stage, took off at 4:57 a.m. local time from Vostochny, Russia’s newest spaceport near the country’s border with China in the far eastern Amur Oblast. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 23)