Russia has succeeded in putting a Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit,... even though the rocket was struck by lightning just 10 seconds after take-off.
The Russian Aerospace Force says the rocket blasted off from northwest Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodromeat on Monday at 9:23 a.m. Moscow time,... adding that the satellite has been working normally in space.
This is Russia's equivalent to America's Global Positioning System that provides real-time positioning and speed data for land, sea and airborne receivers worldwide.