Russia Launches U.S. Satellite Into Space
October 15, 2004
MOSCOW – A Russian booster rocket carried a U.S. telecommunications satellite into space on Friday, officials said.
The Proton-M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:23 a.m. and put the more than AMS-15 satellite into geostationary orbit about seven hours later, said Alexander Bobrenyov, a spokesman for the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center.
The satellite was built by Lockheed Martin and ordered by Princeton, N.J.-based SES Americom, which said it would support video and broadband services. The Khrunichev Center, which designs and produces the rocked, said the satellite would serve North and South America.