Russian Communications Satellite Launches on Proton Rocket

Friday, December 27, 2013 - 19:00 in Astronomy & Space

A Proton rocket fired away from the snow-covered Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, completing a series of maneuvers before deploying a Russian civil communications satellite in orbit nine hours later.

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