The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with 11 spacecrafts started from the Vostochny cosmodrome, Vesti Primorye reported with reference to TASS.

"The launch of the Soyuz-2.1a space rocket with the spacecraft" Kanopus-B "No. 3 and No. 4 and nine by-pass vehicles was completed at 5:07 Moscow time," the representative of the Roskosmos state corporation said.

In nine minutes, at 5:16 Moscow time, from the third stage of the rocket the "Fregat" upper stage should separate, which will continue to lead the satellites to the target orbits.

In Primorye, the launch of a rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome tracks the center of space communications in the Galenki.

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