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Russia Launches Proton-M Rocket with Arab Telecoms Satellite

03:01 24/04/2012 MOSCOW, April 24 (RIA Novosti)

A Proton-M carrier rocket with the YahSat 1B telecommunications satellite on board has been launched from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said.

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