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Rocket: Proton M with Breeze M upper stage
Payload: Anik F3
Date: April 9, 2007
Time: 2254 GMT (6:54 p.m. EDT)
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Satellite feed: Intelsat Americas 6, Transponder 11, C-band, 93° West




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