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Proton rocket blasts off with Russian telecom satellite


Proton rocket blasts off with Russian telecom satellite Russia's Express AM6 communications satellite lifted off aboard a Proton rocket Tuesday and reached its targeted geostationary transfer orbit after a nine-hour climb thousands of miles above Earth. Powered by six RD-276 engines generating nearly 2.5 million pounds of thrust, the Proton rocket launched at 1509 GMT (11:09 a.m. EDT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where it was 9:09 p.m. local time. Turning east from the historic launch base, the 191-foot-tall three-stage rocket accelerated to nearly orbital velocity -- about 17,000 mph -- before deploying a Breeze M upper stage for a series of four burns to put the Express AM6 satellite in the correct orbit.    More



(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Oct 22)

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