PHOTOS: Proton rolls out with Mexican satellite

BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: March 25, 2013

A Proton rocket is set to lift off Tuesday for the first time since a December launch mishap placed a Russian communications satellite in the wrong orbit.

The 191-foot-tall rocket will launch at 1906:48 GMT (3:06:48 p.m. EDT) Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The Proton's payload fairing contains the Satmex 8 communications satellite for Satelites Mexicanos S.A., or Satmex, Mexico's leading satellite operator.

International Launch Services, the Proton's commercial sales firm, arranged the mission on Proton.

See our Mission Status Center for updates on the launch.

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