Proton-M rocket launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome © Sergey Sergeev / RIA Novosti
The backup of the Russian Space Center and French satellite supplier Eutelsat has marked a long haul dispatch contract.
"A few Proton-M transporter rocket dispatches with Eutelsat satellites will be done between 2016-2023 from the Baikonur space focus," Russia's space office Roscosmos said on Thursday.
The principal dispatch is relied upon to convey the Eutelsat 9B satellite into space. The powerful show satellite is intended to give advanced TV and information administrations for Scandinavia and the Baltic nations.
In the course of recent years, Russian Proton rockets have propelled 11 Eutelsat satellites, as indicated by the Khrunichev Center.
Eutelsat gives scope over all of Europe, and in addition the Center East, Africa, India and critical parts of Asia and the Americas. It is one of the world's three driving satellite administrators regarding income.
Russian Proton rockets have been in operation since the 1960s. They are utilized for both business and government dispatches. Every one of them are constructed at the Khrunichev Center and after that shipped to the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Since 1965, 407 Proton rocket jump starts have been completed in Russia.
Protons propelled the unmanned Soviet circumlunar flights, the Salyut space stations, the Mir center fragment and extension modules, and both the Zarya and Zvezda modules of the Universal Space Station.
The Proton rocket is 53 meters (174 feet) tall and has three or four stages, and can convey 20.7 tons into low Earth circle.
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