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Text of report in English by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 19 August: Russia's Proton-M booster with British satellite Inmarsat 4F3 has been launched from the Baykonur cosmodrome, the secretary of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, Aleksandr Bobrenev, told ITAR-TASS on Tuesday [19 August]. "Proton-M with the Briz-M upper stage and Inmarsat 4F3 satellite was launched from Baykonur at 0243 Moscow time [2243 gmt 18 August]," he said. Originally published...

On Monday, the Russian Proton rocket tried to prove its dependability by delivering one of the largest commercial satellites ever created into orbit.The launcher, which has had three failures over the last three years, marooned a US spacecraft at a useless altitude in March.International Launch Services says an upper-stage problem has been located and fixed.The UK-based Inmarsat company says it is confident that the Proton rocket will deliver the six-ton Inmarsat-4 (I4) satellite into orbit...

A Proton Breeze M launch vehicle successfully lifted the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite into orbit today, marking the third mission of the year for International Launch Services (ILS). The Proton Breeze M vehicle, built by Khrunichev Space Center of Moscow, lifted off from Pad 39 at the cosmodrome at 4:43 today local time (18:43 EDT Monday, 22:43 GMT Monday). After a 9-hour-3-minute mission, the launcher released the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The Inmarsat-4 F3...

MOSCOW. Aug 13 (Interfax) - The U.S. telecommunication satellite Inmarsat 4F4 will be launched with a Russian Proton-M launch vehicle from Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 2:43 a.m. Moscow time on August 12, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced. A report posted on the agency's website says that planned operations continue at Baikonur to prepare the launch of Proton-M with the Briz-M upper stage which should place Inmarsat 4F3 in orbit. The low-pressure tanks of the...

MIAMI, July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The South Florida Proton Center and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announce the first university affiliated proton treatment facility in South Florida. The $85-100 million facility, officially "The South Florida Proton Center at The University of Miami," will be located at the new UM Life Sciences Park and will be a LEED certified green building. Proton therapy uses a sophisticated system with a particle accelerator to precisely deposit...

By LAURA CAPITANO Doug Peralta reminded me of something important: Your doctor doesn't always know best. Discouraged by the surgery-or-else prognosis two different urologists gave him, Peralta, a Melbourne resident, continued to seek options regarding his early-stage prostate cancer. "You need to take charge of your own diagnosis," he said. "If I'd listened to the first doctor, I'd be walking around without my prostate." It was a dentist, actually, a golf buddy of his, who told Peralta that...

By Patricia Anstett, Detroit Free Press Jul. 10--Beaumont Hospitals announced Wednesday that it has received final approval from the Michigan Department of Community Health to develop the state's first proton cancer therapy center. The $159-million facility will be built on the health system's Royal Oak campus, at a site that will be determined later. Beaumont plans to begin operations in 2010. The two-story, 40,000-square-foot facility requires a building nearly as large as a football...

Inmarsat and ILS set august 14th for proton flight with inmarsat satellite Inmarsat plc (LSE: ISAT), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, today announced that International Launch Services (ILS) has scheduled its next Proton Breeze M commercial mission for 14th August (13th August GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the launch of the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite. The satellite is scheduled to be shipped to Baikonur in early July for a six-week...

International Launch Services (ILS) has scheduled its next Proton Breeze M commercial mission for August 14 (August 13 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the launch of the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite. The satellite is scheduled to be shipped to Baikonur in early July for a six-week launch programme. The satellite, an EADS Astrium Eurostar 3000 model, will weigh approximately 6 metric tons at liftoff, perfectly suited for the Proton Breeze M's lift capability. Khrunichev...

Russia launches rocket with military satellite MOSCOW, June 27 (Xinhua) -- A Proton-K rocket carrying a Kosmos military satellite was launched from the cosmodrome of Baikonur on Friday, the Itar-Tass news agency reported. The heavy carrier took off at 03:59 Moscow time (23:59 GMT). Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov watched the launch. The launch was successful, both the information service of the space troops and the Titov spacecraft test and control center said. The launch...