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Rocket: Proton M with Breeze M upper stage
Payload: BADR 4
Date: November 8, 2006
Time: 2001 GMT (3:01 p.m. EST)
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Satellite feed: Intelsat Americas 6, Transponder 14, C-band, 93° West




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BY JUSTIN RAY

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