Russia's Proton rocket takes satellite to space

Proton Lofts Russian MilSat
Moscow (AFP) August 29, 2000 - Russia's Proton booster-rocket carrying a military communications satellite took off from Baikonur station in Kazakhstan early Tuesday, news agencies reported.

Russia's Strategic Rocket Force was in charge of the launch and also controls the satellite's placement in orbit and its operation, the Strategic Rocket Force press service told Interfax.

It was the fifth launch of military satellites of Kosmos 2372 type since 1990, press service said.

This launch comes after Russia's space officials had postponed on Saturday the launch of a Proton rocket carrying five satellites for Italy, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, citing unspecified technical difficulties.

The Khrunichev Space Center, maker of booster-rockets, said that 15 launches of Protons were scheduled for this year, and that nine of those had already taken place.

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Launch of Dnepr RS-20 Scrubbed Until September
Moscow - August 26, 2000 - Launch of the new Dnepr carrier rocket, based on the Russian ICBM SS-18, with 5 foreign satellites aboard has been postponed until at least September due to technical problems. The rocket also known as the Dnepr carrier rocket was to be launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome at 2 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday.

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