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Russia Launches Telecoms Satellite From Kazakhstan

File image of a Proton-K launch.

Moscow (AFP) Oct 30, 2004
A Russian Proton-K rocket and its telecoms satellite cargo were successfully launched from the Baikonour space station in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan overnight, the Russian Space Agency FKA announced early Saturday.

The launch took place at 2211 GMT Friday with the satellite due to be placed into orbit at 0445 GMT Saturday, Interfax quoted the space agency as saying.

The Express AM-1 satellite, built by the Reshetnev scientific research association in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, will transmit television and radio signals back to Russia as well as providing new internet and telephone links.

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Russia To Launch New Telecommunications Satellite
Moscow (XNA) Oct 29, 2004
A Russian Proton-M rocket will lift off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Saturday to deliver a telecommunications satellite into space, the Federal Space Agency said on Thursday.







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