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European Satellite Launched On Russian Rocket
August 05, 2006
Baikonur space facility (file photo) (AFP)
telecommunications satellite has blasted into space aboard a Russian
rocket.
Officials said the Proton-M rocket carrying the HotBird-8 satellite launched smoothly early today from the Baikonur space facility in Kazakhstan.
The launch came 10 days after a Dnepr rocket carrying 18 satellites failed shortly after takeof from Baikonur and crashed.
(ITAR-TASS, AP, AFP)