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Oct. 12, 2022
Proton-M carrying AngoSat-2 liftoff
On Wednesday, October 12, 2022, at 18:00:00 Moscow time, a Proton-M launch vehicle was launched from the 81st site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome with a DM-03 upper stage and the Angolan telecommunications spacecraft Angosat-2, created by enterprise of the State Corporation "Roscosmos".
The carrier rocket has worked in the normal mode, the upper stage has separated from the third stage of the rocket and is currently putting the satellite into a given orbit.
Proton-M launches AngoSat-2
This was the 15th launch of a Russian launch vehicle in 2022 and the sixth from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. For "Proton-M" this flight was the 113th, for DM-03 - the sixth in history.
The Proton-M launch vehicle was manufactured by the State Space Research and Production Center named after M.V. Khrunichev, upper stage DM-03 - Rocket and Space Corporation Energia named after S.P. Korolev, the Angosat-2 spacecraft - by the company "Information Satellite Systems" named after Academician M.F. Reshetnev (part of Roskosmos).
AngoSat-2 satellite
The Proton-M launch vehicle has been used since 2001 to launch payloads into specified orbits and departure trajectories as part of federal and commercial programs. Over the two decades of operation, it has gone through four phases of deep modernization, which made it possible to significantly improve its energy-mass and environmental characteristics. Today's launch was the 427th launch of the Proton family of rockets since 1965.
Related links:
ROSCOSMOS Press Release: https://www.roscosmos.ru/38347/
Proton-M: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/proton-m/
Angola: https://www.roscosmos.ru/tag/angola/
Images, Video, Text, Credits: ROSCOSMOS/SciNews/Orbiter.ch Aerospace/Roland Berga.
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