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Russia launches US satellite after delay
Russia launched a US telecommunications satellite from Kazakhstan after a 24-hour delay for unspecified technical reasons, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
Updated on: Dec 1, 2009, 09:09:11 IST
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Russia launched a US telecommunications satellite from Kazakhstan after a 24-hour delay for unspecified technical reasons, Interfax news agency said on Tuesday.
“The launch went as planned,” an official from Russia’s Roskosmos space agency was quoted as saying, adding that the Zenit rocket took off at precisely 0230 IST.
The Intelsat-15 satellite, produced by US-based Orbital Sciences Corporation, is due to provide communications service for customers in the Middle East and Russia.
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