Russian Proton-K rocket booster launched from Baykonur
December 28, 2003
Text of report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS
Moscow, 29 December: A Proton-K rocket booster carrying Russian Ekspress-AM22 telecommunications space satellite was launched today at 0200 Moscow time [2300 gmt] from the Baykonur space launchpad. ITAR-TASS learnt this at the press service of the Russian Space Troops.
The four-stage, liquid-fuelled, heavy-class rocket, equipped with the DM upper stage, will place a new-generation communications satellite on a geosyncronous orbit more than 36,000 km high.