From Baikonur rocket “Proton-M” – BBC News

From the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan) launched a carrier rocket “Proton-M”. Booster “Briz-M” and spacecraft “Express-AM6″ have already been withdrawn carrier rocket into orbit.

As reported by “Interfax” Roskosmos, held launch rocket. This is the sixth in 2014 with the launch of a space rocket “Proton-M”, and 399 th in its flight history. According to the functional sequence of start, two minutes after the start there was a separation of the first stage of the rocket and its fall in the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan. Separation of the second stage and payload fairing was five and a half minutes of the flight. Stage and fairing will fall in the Altai.

Branch booster in conjunction with the spacecraft is planned in nine and a half minutes after the start. The third stage of the carrier rocket “Proton-M” will fall into the Pacific Ocean.

Further removal of the satellite to the target orbit an average height of about 37 thousand 800 kilometers is planned with four inclusions sustainer propulsion booster “Briz-M “.

Branch of the satellite from the” razgonnika “is scheduled at 4:31 Moscow time on 22 October. After that, “Breeze-M” will take two maneuvers to slip into a graveyard orbit. Carrier rocket “Proton” and booster “Briz-M” developed and commercially produced FSUE “State Research and Production Space Center Khrunichev” (Moscow).

Upgraded “Proton-M” equipped with the upper stage “Breeze-M”, is able to deliver on the geosynchronous transfer orbit a payload of more than 6 tons. “Express-AM6″ made by JSC “Information Satellite Systems” Reshetnev “(Zheleznogorsk) for FSUE” Satellite Communications “(Moscow) on the platform of a heavy class” Express 2000 “and is designed to provide a wide range of communication services and broadcasting on the territory of Russia. Lifetime spacecraft is 15 years, and the payload includes 11 antennas, transponder 72 C-, Ku-, Ka- and L-band frequencies. preparation for this launch was suspended after accident with the third stage rocket “Proton-M” 16 May. As a result of this accident was lost Russian communications satellite “Express-AM4R.” Prior to this, in 2012, at the start, “Proton-M” was lost satellite “Express-AM4″. The first rocket launch after the crash, “Proton-M” was the launch in late September, the spacecraft series “Ray”.