Satellites launched
(N.Z.P.A .-Reuter —Copyright) MOSCOW, July 21. The Soviet Union has launched eight earth satellites from one rocket, Tass news agency reported today. The satellites, carrying scientific instruments to continue space research, were launched yesterday. The satellites, numbered 504 to 511 in the Cosmos series, were moving in their assigned orbits, Tass said. The satellites were going round the earth once in 115.2 minutes. All the instruments, including radio telemetric systems aboard the satellites, were working normally, Tass said.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32975, 22 July 1972, Page 1
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