Russia successfully launched the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the KOEN spacecraft and Kinosputnik from the Vostochny Spaceport, Roscosmos reported. "At 4:16 Moscow time (1:16 A.m. GMT), the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, manufactured by the Advanced Rocket and Space Center (part of the state corporation Roscosmossmos), removed the execution of the KOEN spacecraft made by MT-LAB and the Kinosputnik spacecraft made by Sputnik Group," it was reported. For the first time in the history of Russian spaceflight, the main payload of the launch consists of outer space, Roskomos added.

Russia successfully launched the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle with the KOEN spacecraft and Kinosputnik from the Vostochny Spaceport, Roscosmos reported. "At 4:16 Moscow time (1:16 A.m. GMT), the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle, manufactured by the Advanced Rocket and Space Center (part of the state corporation Roscosmossmos), removed the execution of the KOEN spacecraft made by MT-LAB and the Kinosputnik spacecraft made by Sputnik Group," it was reported. For the first time in the history of Russian spaceflight, the main payload of the launch consists of outer space, Roskomos added.