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September 16, 2019

Breaking News

[ September 12, 2019 ] NASA lunar orbiter to image Chandrayaan 2 landing site next week Mission Reports
[ September 12, 2019 ] SES selects SpaceX for two Falcon 9 launches Falcon 9
[ September 12, 2019 ] China launches Earth-observing satellites, solar sail experiment Mission Reports
[ September 10, 2019 ] Space station cargo mission grounded by launch pad fire Mission Reports
[ September 10, 2019 ] Long-delayed NASA science satellite gets October launch date Mission Reports

Proton launcher takes off with dual-use Russian communications satellite

August 17, 2017

A high-power Russian satellite designed to deliver broadband Internet connections and relay television and videoconferencing signals fired into orbit Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.