Russia’s venerable Proton rocket received additional backing on the international launch market as world-leading satellite communications provider Intelsat signed an agreement with International Launch Services for five Proton missions through 2023.
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Commercial Satellite operator Eutelsat has signed a multi-launch agreement with International Launch Services, acquiring slots on Proton rockets for the period of 2016 to 2023, and signed with Arianespace for a rare single-payload launch atop the powerful Ariane 5 rocket in early 2016.
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Russia’s Proton-M/Briz-M heavy lift workhorse provided the Turksat-4B communications satellite an on-target insertion into the desired Geostationary Transfer Orbit, orbital data released on Saturday confirms.
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A Russian Proton-M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 20:40 UTC on October 16, 2015 carrying the Turksat-4B telecommunications satellite to orbit in a successful ascent mission taking nine hours and 13 minutes.
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A Russian Proton-M lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 20:40 UTC on October 16, 2015 carrying the Turksat-4B telecommunications satellite to orbit in a successful ascent mission taking nine hours and 13 minutes.
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Russia’s Proton-M heavy-lift workhorse rocket lit up the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, blasting off from Site
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A Proton-M rocket rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Tuesday to enter final preparation for its planned Friday liftoff on a mission to deliver the Turksat-4B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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The Proton-M/Briz-M launch vehicle carrying the Turksat-4B communications satellite made an early morning rollout to Site 200/39 where the 58-meter
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A familiar sight returned to the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday when a Proton rocket thundered into the skies over the wold’s oldest space port. Returning to flight after a three-month stand-down, Proton-M/Briz-M lifted off from Site 200/39 at 11:44 UTC, embarking on a long mission of 15 hours and 31 minutes to lift the Inmarsat 5-F3 communications satellite to a Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit.
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Originally published on September 15, 2015 A Proton rocket lit up the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday,
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