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Moscow (AFP) Sept 20, 2008 A Proton-M rocket carrying a Canadian telecommunications satellite took off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Saturday, the Russian news agency RIA-Novosti reported. "The launch was made as scheduled at 01:48 am Moscow time (2148 GMT)," an official of Russia's Khrunichev space centre was quoted as saying. The 4,850-kilogramme (10,670-pound) Nimiq-4 satellite, constructed by EADS Astrium, was launched for Telesat Canada to improve the quality of television broadcasts across Canada during its 15-year expected lifespan, the news agency reported. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 18, 2008"Germany, Brazil and Argentina have all expressed an interest in using the Ukrainian launch vehicle Cyclone-4 for orbiting their satellites," said Eduard Kuznetsov, deputy general director of Ukraine's National Space Agency. |
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