Russian Rocket to Place Six U.S. Telecom Satellites into Orbit
June 9, 2008
MOSCOW. June 9 (Interfax-AVN) – Six U.S. Orbcom telecom satellites will be launched by a Kosmos-3M rocket from the Russian Defense Ministry’s Kapustin Yar testing range on July 19.
“The launch vehicle and the satellites have been brought to the assembly-and-test center of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Kapustin Yar testing range. They are being prepared for takeoff,” says a report posted on the Federal Space Agency’s web site.
The launch has been scheduled for 10:36 a.m. Moscow time on June 19.
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Disaster Accident, Kapustin Yar, Spaceflight, Space, Moscow, Environment, Kosmos 501, Kosmos 347, Kapustin, Nature, Kosmos-3M, Spaceports