Baikonur, Kazakhstan, January 30, 2016, 01:55 – REGNUM Carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the spacecraft Eutelsat 9B («Eutelsat-9B”) on January 30 was successfully launched from the cosmodrome “Baikonur”. This was reported in the Russian Space Agency official microblog in Twitter.
Start carrier rocket was carried out at 01:02 MSK. “The orbital unit as part of Eutelsat 9B and the upper stage” Breeze-M “placed into the calculated orbit. Branch at 10:32 MSK, “- said in a statement.
The powerful telecommunications satellites due Eutelsat 9B, manufactured by Airbus Defense and Space on the platform Eurostar E3000, designed for digital television and data services in Scandinavia and Baltic countries.
According to the contract of the subsidiary Space Center Khrunichev International Launch Services and the French satellite operator Eutelsat Communications, which was signed in October last year, during the period from 2016 to 2023 from the Baikonur “cosmodrome “should be done several launches carrier rocket” Proton-M “with the satellites Eutelsat.
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