“Proton-M” with the British satellite was successfully launched from Baikonur. Footage run – RIA Novosti

First, after the May crash carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the British spacecraft communications Inmarsat-5F3 successfully launched from the Baikonur “cosmodrome.” Take a look at the video footage the start.

Home “Proton-M” satellite Inmarsat-5F3 was held at the estimated time, the representative of the Russian Space Agency.

“on August 28 at 14:44 Moscow time from the launch complex of the platform 200 Baikonur Cosmodrome starting calculations of rocket-space industry of Russia conducted a successful launch of the carrier rocket” Proton-M “with the upper stage” BRIZ- M “and telecommunications spacecraft Inmarsat-5F3″, – according to the website department.

British spacecraft will be put into the so-called supersinhronnuyu orbit 65 000 thousand kilometers, which is almost two times higher than the usual point of standing similar devices in a geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometers in height.

Inmarsat-5F3 is designed to provide communication services in the territory of North and South America and the Atlantic Ocean. It is made by the order of the British operator Inmarsat space programs division of Boeing (Boeing Satellite Systems). Marketing rights and the commercial operation of carrier rockets “Proton-M” has a joint Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services (ILS).

On the night of May 16 when outputting to orbit the Mexican satellite MexSat-1, there was an extraordinary situation, which resulted in the carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the communication satellite “Ekspress Am4r” burned up in the atmosphere. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the state material damage amounting to over 57 million rubles. The cause of abnormal termination of the flight, “Proton” with the Mexican satellite MexSat-1 was the refusal of the steering engine Level III due to increased vibronagruzok.