Russian Rocket
20 08 2008
A 58m-high, 700-ton Russian rocket from the Cold-War era has successfully launched the “Inmarsat-4, or I4-F3 broadband satellite” into space. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Almost as big as a double decker bus and with an unfurled solar wingspan as wide as a football field, it needed an appropriately big ride into space.
[via Gizmodo]
