Russia's National Space Corporation launched 73 satellites into 3 orbits

On July 14, the Russian National Space Corporation (Roscosmos) and the Glavcosmos Research Center announced the 'Combined - 2.1a' boosters carrying remote Earth probes "Canopus-B-IR" and 72 small satellites were launched into orbit from Baikonur space airport in Kazakhstan.

Russian 'Combined - 2.1a' boosters were launched into orbit in April 2016.(Photo: phys.org).

Glavcosmos's announcement said all the satellites had successfully separated from the device launched at 14:41 GMT.

These satellites are divided into 3 different orbits. Glavcosmos claims that this is the first time in the world, such a large and complex mission is carried out.

Satellite " Canopus-B-IR" is used to monitor natural disasters and emergency technologies, including natural hydrometeorological phenomena, to detect forest fires, to discharge large amounts of substances pollution into the natural environment, as well as monitoring natural and agricultural activities including water resources and coastal areas, the remaining small satellites are produced by Japan, Germany, Canada and the US.