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Russia Launches First 16 Rassvet Satellites, Starting Deployment of its Starlink-like Internet Constellation

On March 19, 2026, at 12:00 CET, a Soyuz-2 rocket lifted off from the military cosmodrome of Plesetsk Cosmodrome, placing 16 satellites of the Rassvet constellation into orbit. The spacecraft were developed by the Russian private company Bjuro 1440. The launch marks a crucial milestone for the project: for the first time, the constellation enters its operational deployment phase, with the goal of creating a network of low-Earth-orbit satellites …
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spacevoyaging.com broke the news in on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
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