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A Russian Proton rocket carrying a Canadian telecommunications satellite blasted off from Russia's Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan early Friday, Russian space agency Roskosmos's officials said. The blastoff was at 1:53 am (2153 GMT Thursday), with the Anik F1R satellite due to be placed in orbit at 5:16 pm, officials quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency said. "The satellite with a unique 15-year service term will supply communications, television, mobile telephone connections and wireless Internet service," the Roskosmos representative said. The Anik F1R would replace an earlier Anik F1 satellite, whose service term had run out. All rights reserved. © 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express 
Anik F1R And Progress At The Launch Complexes Of Baikonur
Baikonur (SPX) Sep 07, 2005A Proton-M space rocket with a Briz-M upper stage, and the Canadian communications satellite Anik F1R was rolled out to the Proton Launch Complex of Site 200 of Baikonur in the morning of the 5th September. During the day specialists carried out works under the schedule of the first launch day. |
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