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Europeans on the steppe

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Once Starsem was created, its bylaws ratified, and the first contracts signed, a great deal remained to be done before the most historic of the Soviet launchers, topped by the propulsion module of a Soviet spy satellite, could take off from Baikonur with a cluster of Western satellites as its payload.

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Lardier, C., Barensky, S. (2013). Europeans on the steppe. In: The Soyuz Launch Vehicle. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5459-5_10

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