Russian Launch of US Communications Satellite Postponed By 5 Days
Posted on: Tuesday, 22 November 2005, 12:00 CST
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti
Moscow, 22 November: The launch of the Proton-M space rocket with a Briz-M transfer orbit stage and the US communications satellite AMS-23 (Worldsat-3) has been postponed from 1 to 6 December 2005, says a bulletin posted on the official website of the Russian Space Agency.
"The launch of the Proton-M space rocket with a Briz-M booster transfer orbit stage and the US communications satellite AMS-23 is planned for 6 December 2005 from [launch] pad No 200 of the Baykonur space centre," the bulletin says.
[Passage omitted: background on satellite, rocket]
The contract for launch services was concluded by the International Launch Services (ILS) joint venture, which markets heavy carrier rockets Proton (Russia) and Atlas (USA) on world markets.
The ILS is made up of the US corporation Lockheed Martin and its Russian partner, the Khrunichev Centre.
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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