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Baikonour, Kazakhstan (AFP) Jun 19, 2006 Kazakhstan's first telecommunications satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Sunday in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev. The KazSat telecom satellite was launched by a Russian Proton rocket at 4:44 a.m. local time and released from the rocket nine minutes later. Seven hours after launch the Kazakh satellite was due to reach its permanent orbit. Putin and Nazarbayev attended the launch at Baikonur, the former Soviet cosmodrome which Russia has leased from Kazakhstan since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The satellite was built in Russia by the same frim that manufactures the workhorse Proton rockets.
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Moscow (AFP) Jun 16, 2006Russia plans to send up a space exploration capsule to analyse the surface of Mars and collect test samples from one of the red planet's moons in 2009, Russia's space agency said Friday. "The launch of the Phobos-Grunt space capsule is scheduled for October 2009. The expedition will take three years," Roskosmos said in a written statement. |
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