Russia announces successful launch of 52 satellites into orbit

Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced on Monday that it has successfully launched 52 satellites on a Soyuz-2.1b rocket into their planned orbits in space.

The Soyuz rocket launch was conducted on Sunday afternoon at the Vostochny Cosmodrome facility in Russia's far eastern Amur Oblast, Roscosmos said on its Telegram channel. The rocket delivered into orbit two Aist-2T and 50 other satellites, a process lasting about 5 hours.