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December 09, 2013

Russian Proton-M rocket launches Inmarsat-5F1 satellite
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Voice of Russia) Dec 09, 2013
A Russian Proton-M rocket and a Breeze-M upper stage have successfully guided a fresh telecoms satellite into sub-orbit on Sunday. "The spacecraft and the upper-stage rocket have detached from the third stage of the rocket carrier," Russia's space agency has reported. After being launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 12:12 GMT by a Russian Proton-M main booster, the Inmarsat-5F1 telecommunications satellite of the British Inmarsat global mobile operator is on its way to a geostationary transfer ... read more

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