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The Dnepr booster rocket blasts off from
the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 17, 2007. A Russian
rocket on Tuesday launched a cluster of foreign satellites into orbit,
including seven miniature satellites developed by U.S. university
students. The Dnepr booster rocket carries one Egyptian and six Saudi
satellites as well as seven CubeSat mini-satellites developed under a
project by California Polytechnic State University and Stanford
University's Space Systems Development Lab.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) Photo
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