Russian carrier rocket delivers ExoMars spacecraft into near-Earth orbit

BAIKONUR. KAZINFORM The space vehicles of the Russian-European inter-planetary mission ExoMars-2016 have successfully separated from the third stage of Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket, the Roscosmos State Space Corporation told TASS on Monday.

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"The Briz-M acceleration unit separated jointly with the ExoMars-2016 space vehicles from the third stage of the Proton-M carrier rocket. The space vehicles were delivered into the near-Earth orbit," Roscosmos said.

Source: TASS