Radio Free Europe 12/18/2020
Russia has hailed what it says was the first and only commercial launch this year from a space center in the country’s Far East that has been plagued by cost overruns and delays.
A Soyuz rocket carrying 36 British telecommunications and Internet satellites blasted off from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on December 18, the Russian space agency Roskosmos said.
A spokesperson for the agency said that the launch was the first and only one to take place at the Vostochny Cosmodrome this year.
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