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2nd LD Writethru: Russia launches U.S. satellite from floating pad
-ANI): Russia has put a U.S. communications satellite into space from a sea-based launch pad, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Friday.
The Zenit-2SL carrier rocket, carrying the U.S. Intelsat 19 telecoms satellite, blasted off from the equatorial Odyssey Launch Platform in the Pacific Ocean at 9:23 a.m. Moscow time (0523 GMT), the mission control center said.
The 5,600-kg satellite, launched
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