The Soyuz-2.1b rocket blasts off at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 125 miles from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, in this photo released on Feb. 29, 2024. Roscosmos space corporation via AP
A Russian rocket has launched an Iranian telecommunications satellite into orbit—the fifth such launch since 2022.
The Soyuz rocket, designed during the Cold War, carried Iran’s Nahid-2 satellite into orbit on July 25, from a commercial launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s eastern Amur province.
