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Launched Proton-M with Nimik-6 spacecraft from Baikonur
May 17 to 23:12 Moscow time from launch complex 81 Baikonur Cosmodrome made launch a space rocket Proton-M with the upper block Briz-M, designed for launching into orbit Nimik 6 telecommunications satellite.
In accordance with the flight cyclogram head unit in the Briz-M and Nimik 6 cleanly separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle, followed by removal of the spacecraft continued to the target orbit.
Office of the spacecraft from the upper stage is scheduled for 08:26 Moscow time May 18.
Press Service of the Yuzhny Space Center, TsENKI Division