The Proton-M carrier rocket with Russian Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 communication satellites, scheduled for launch on December 13, has been delivered to a launching pas at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 11th December, 2021) The Proton-M carrier rocket with Russian Express-AMU3 and Express-AMU7 communication satellites, scheduled for launch on December 13, has been delivered to a launching pas at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Saturday.
The rocket's launch has been postponed three times since November and will be the second Proton-M launch this year.
"The Proton-M carrier rocket has been installed on the launch pad number 39 of the site number 200 and brought into a vertical position," Roscosmos said on Telegram.
The Proton expendable launch system has been in use since 1965. Its latest model, the Proton-M, has been used since 2001.
