Space rocket Proton blasts off from Baikonur with Dutch commsat

MOSCOW. February 15. KAZINFORM The carrier rocket Proton-M with a Dutch communications satellite blasted off from Baikonur cosmodrone on Tuesday night.

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Accoridng to Itar-Tass, Alexander Bobrenyov, spokesman of the Khrunichev space research and production center, has told Itar-Tass, "The liftoff of the carrier rocket Proton-M, fitted out with the acceleration unit Briz-M, was effected at 23:36, Moscow time".