Russia launched a Cosmos 3M booster from Plesetsk on 8 June carrying a Parus navigation satellite into low Earth orbit. It was the first launch of a 3M since the second stage failure of a booster last November which resulted in the loss of the EarthWatch QuickBird 1 commercial remote sensing satellite. The Parus launch had been delayed from 27 April due to the control system failure of the second stage vernier engines.
Source: Flight International