Russia launches in orbit the Mexican satellite QuetzSat-1 (VIDEO)
(WAPA) – The Russian space agency Roscosmos announced that last night, the Mexican telecommunications satellite QuetzSat-1 was successfully launched from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan; at 7.45am Moscow time (0345 GMT), the satellite was separated from the rocket, a Proton-M.
An agency spokesman said that “The separation of the spacecraft from the rocket was effected according to plans and the satellite has been orbited in its designated place”. The local press reported that this is the second successful launch of a Proton-M rocket equipped with a Briz-M booster, while attempts on August 18 had failed to send it in orbit, using the same type of engine, the telecommunications satellite Express-AM4, which should have served Siberia and Eastern Russia.