From the Baikonur cosmodrome launched rocket “Proton-M” with the upper stage “Breeze-M”, which is to put into orbit a Russian telecommunications satellites “Yamal-401″.
About 10 minutes to give the space unit with the upper stage to transfer orbit altitude of about 180 kilometers. There’s unit and the satellite separated from the rocket’s third stage, “Interfax”.
Now the “Yamal-401″ with engines “Breeze-M” will reach the target geostationary orbit at an altitude of 35 thousand 675 kilometers. This should happen at 12:17 Moscow time on December 15. Detachable part rocket “Proton-M” will fall in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan, Altai and in the Pacific Ocean.
This is the seventh space launch, carried out in 2014 with the help of the carrier rocket “Proton”, and 400 th start-year history of this medium since 1965. Spacecraft “Yamal-401″ was ordered by the Russian satellite operator “Gazprom Space Systems” JSC “Information Satellite Systems” Reshetnev. “When assembling the components used Thales Alenia Space (France).
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