FILE - A Russian Soyuz 2.1b rocket carrying the Meteor M satellite and additional 18 small satellites, lifts off from the launch pad at the new Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017. Russia's Vostochny space launch facility where President Vladimir Putin hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has a troubled history tarnished by construction delays and widespread corruption. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, File)