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RE: Express MD2 satellite

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Russian booster rocket fails to put 2 communications satellite in orbit

Russia's space pride suffered another blow Tuesday when a booster rocket failed to place two communications satellites into target orbits, a mishap that came a day after NASA successfully landed a robotic vehicle on Mars.
Russia's Roscosmos space agency said the Proton-M rocket was launched just before midnight Monday from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The booster's first stages worked fine, but the upper stage intended to give the final push to the satellites switched off prematurely.
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Russian Booster Fails to Put Satellites in Transit Orbit

Briz-M booster has failed to bring two satellites into a calculated transition orbit after the launch late on Monday, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said. Russia launched a Proton rocket with Briz-M booster carrying the Telkom-3 and the Express MD2 satellites at 11.31 p.m. Moscow time [19:31 GMT] from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
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Launch of Proton-M Carrying Telkom 3 and Express MD2

A Proton-M rocket lifted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan today, August 6th 2012, at 19:31 UTC carrying the Telkom 3 and Express MD2 communication satellites. Telkom 3 will provide 32 C-band and 10 Ku-band transponders for Indonesia communications. Express MD2 will provide 8 C-band and 3 L-band transponders for communications across Russia.

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A Proton M-Briz rocket is scheduled to launch the Express MD2 and Telkom 3 communication satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 19:31 UT, 6th August, 2012.