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Yes, it does. If there is no roscore already running.

As per Wiki on roslaunch:

roscore is a specialization of the roslaunch tool for bringing up the "core" ROS system.

And on roscore itself:

NOTE: If you use roslaunch, it will automatically start roscore if it detects that it is not already running.

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