According to spokesman of Russian Space Forces “Alexei Zolotukhin”, a Russian Proton-M rocket carrying an AMC-4R telecommunications satellite blasts off last Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Zolotukhin said that the Proton-M rocket whicj blasted off from the Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome at around 03:19 p.m. Moscow time (1119 GMT), sent the U.S. SES-1 satellite into space. From time of lunch and in about nine (9) hours later, the US satellite telecom separated from Briz-M booster and reached its designated geostationary orbit at the position of 101 degrees West. Read More Russia Launches U.S. Telecommunications Satellite is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Russia Launches U.S. Telecommunications Satellite
