Thursday’s Proton-M launch with the Intelsat 31 communications satellite dodged a bullet when the second stage of the workhorse suffered an engine-related problem in the last seconds of its burn, creating a performance shortfall that is likely to remain without consequences for the satellite payload.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket leaps from its Baikonur Launch Pad, embarking on a long mission to deliver the Intelsat 31 communications satellite.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket leaps from its Baikonur Launch Pad, embarking on a long mission to deliver the Intelsat 31 communications satellite.
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Russia’s Proton-M heavy-lift workhorse arced into sunny skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, starting an all-day ascent mission to deliver the Intelsat 31 satellite to a highly elliptical orbit around Earth.
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A Proton-M rocket was rolled to its Baikonur launch pad on Sunday ahead of a Wednesday liftoff with the Intelsat 31 communications satellite.
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Russia’s Proton-M heavy-lift rocket rolls to the launch pad at Site 81/24 from where it will begin a long orbital delivery of 15 and a half hours to loft the Intelsat 31 spacecraft into a highly elliptical orbit.
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The Intelsat 29e satellite launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket on Wednesday received a smooth ride into Geostationary Transfer Orbit and finished its initial checkouts, now ready to begin the climb to Geostationary Orbit for a 15-year mission delivering high-capacity communications services to the Americas and the Trans-Atlantic flight route.
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Europe’s workhorse rocket conducted a rare single-payload launch on Wednesday, lifting the Intelsat 29e communications satellite to an optimized Geostationary Transfer Orbit to begin an “Epic” mission as part of Intelsat’s new and improved communications architecture.
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Europe’s workhorse rocket conducted a rare single-payload launch on Wednesday, lifting the Intelsat 29e communications satellite to an optimized Geostationary Transfer Orbit to begin an “Epic” mission as part of Intelsat’s new and improved communications architecture.
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Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse conducted a rare single-payload launch on Wednesday, lifting the Intelsat 29e satellite into an optimized Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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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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