Spaceflight Now: Proton launch report
Proton rocket launches GE-1A

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Posted: Oct. 1, 2000

In the predawn skies over Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia, the International Launch Services Proton rocket creates a smoke ring contrail as it climbs to orbit with the GE-1A telecommunications satellite. Source video: ILS (206k, 34sec QuickTime file).

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