Iran claims new satellite launch from Russia
The satellite was launched from the Vostochny launch base, which is 5,000 miles east of Moscow.
A Soyuz-2.1b rocket booster with a Fregat upper stage, carrying Russian the Meteor-M spacecraft and 18 Russian and foreign additional small satellites, blasts off from a launchpad at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, February 29, 202(photo credit: Roscosmos/Handout via REUTERS)Updated: 
