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A Russian military spacecraft designed to map variations in Earth's gravity field, rotation and tectonic movement reached orbit after a launch aboard a modified Soviet-era missile that spawned an uproar from Canadian environmentalists over where the rocket would drop a potentially toxic booster stage. The satellite took off on a Rockot launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. [Source: Spaceflight Now]
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