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To: Wally Mastroly who wrote (6868)	10/18/1999 1:01:00 PM
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Russian Rocket Lifts Satellites MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian Soyuz rocket carried four U.S. communication satellites into orbit Monday after blasting off from a rented government launch pad in a former Soviet republic. The satellites, built by a New York-based telecommunications company, blasted off from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakstan, the Interfax news agency said. The Globalstar satellites join a global mobile phone network. Four previous launches this year put 16 other Globalstar satellites into orbit. Two more launches were planned for later this year -- one from Baikonur and one from the United States. The satellites were built by Space Systems Loral, a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications Ltd. of New York. Russia has not disclosed how much it charges for commercial launches, but media reports have put the figure at about $70 million. Moscow rents the Baikonur cosmodrome -- which was built while Kazakstan was still part of the Soviet Union -- to use it for staffed and commercial space launches.

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