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Israeli communications satellite launched

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 Moscow (AFP) April 28, 2008
 A rocket carrying an Israeli communications satellite was successfully launched Monday from a Russian base in Kazakhstan, television footage showed.

State Russian television showed a Zenit rocket carrying the Israeli AMOS-3 satellite blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome four days after technical problems delayed the original launch.

"The decoupling of the rocket's second stage... was successful," a spokesman for the Russian military's Space Forces told the Interfax news agency.

The satellite launch was run by US-based consortium Sea Launch in cooperation with Moscow-based Space International Services.

The 1.3-tonnes AMOS-3 was to be placed in geostationary orbit 36,000 kilometres (22,000 miles) from Earth.

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Prisma Satellites To Be Launched In June 2009
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 The Swedish Space Corporation has signed a contract with the Russian space company Kosmotras regarding launch of the Prisma satellites. The satellites will be launched onboard a Dnepr launcher in June 2009, either from Baikonur in Kazakhstan or from Yasni in southern Russia. The French climate research satellite Picard will probably be launched on the same launcher. The Swedish-lead Prisma project comprises two satellites which will demonstrate new technologies for formation flying and rendezvous, i.e. close encounters and interaction between space vehicles.






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