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Proton M lifts off with Eutelsat’s W2A (part II)

Submit on Monday, April 6th, 2009 05:58

The W2A satellite of Eutelsat Communications was successfully lofted into orbit by a Proton Briz M rocket supplied by ILS. As reported earlier, lift-off of the 5.9 tonne satellite took place on 3 April at 1624 UTC.
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