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Rocket Proton-M with Russian satellites Glonass-M successfully launched from Baikonur

The carrier rocket Proton-M with Russian satellites Glonass-M was successfully launched from Baikonur, the agency reports referring to a source at the cosmodrome.

Baikonur. August 25. Kazakhstan Today - The carrier rocket Proton-M with Russian satellites Glonass-M was successfully launched from Baikonur, the agency reports referring to a source at the cosmodrome.

The carrier rocket Proton-M was launched today at 14.49 Astana time from launcher of the starting complex of the platform №81 and passed in a regular mode.

The first and the second stages of the carrier rocket separated precisely on time of the flight cyclogram. On the tenth minute of the flight the space satellites were launched by the carrier rocket Proton- M to the suborbital orbit.

Space satellites Glonass-M were created in Open Society Reshetnikov Information Satellite Systems and will enlarge the orbital group of satellites of the Russian global navigating satellite system (GLONASS) up to 17 operating satellites.

Now there are 16 satellites of GLONASS system in the orbit, but only 14 of them work.

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