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    • MOSCOW (AFP) Oct 15, 2004
     A Russian Proton-M booster rocket early Friday launched into orbit a US telecommunications satellite, after blasting off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur space base, Russian news agencies quoted Russian space officials as saying.

    The four-tonne satellite, belonging to US telecom company SES Americom and manufactured by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, will transmit television and radio broadcasts.

    It will also establish Internet and telephone links over North and South America, as well as the Caribbeans Islands, and will reinforce SES Americom's already existing satellite network.




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