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Rocket powered by Ukrainian engine launches Google satellite
The Vega rocket, which has a Ukrainian engine, has successfully put five satellites into orbit, as was reported on the website of the European Space Agency. The rocket was launched at 00:43 Kyiv time from Kourou Cosmodrome, French Guiana, containing four SkySat terra bella satellites owned by Google. Moreover, it also put the first Peruvian satellite PeruSAT-1 into orbit.
The launch of the Vega rocket was the seventh in its history. On 23 June 2015, the European satellite Sentinel-2A, which …