Gagarin mini satellite (Kedr) Launched. Two Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Alexander Samokutyaev on Aug 4 completed its marathon space-walk in which they launched by a students. The mini-satellite is also dedicated to Yuri Gagarin to honour the 50th anniversary of man's first flight on Moon (April 12, 1961). The toaster-like simple mini-satellite called Kedr (Cedar) was designed to transmit Gagarin's message of global harmony by airing greetings in more than a dozen languages and relay images of Earth and telemetry data to amateur radio enthusiasts.
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