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Russia launches Proton-M rocket with Luch-5X relay satellite
(Xinhua) 13:28, March 13, 2023
VLADIVOSTOK, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket with a Breeze-M upper stage on Monday, sending the Luch-5X relay satellite into space.
The Proton-M rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 02:13 a.m. Moscow time (2313 GMT Sunday), Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said in a statement.
The upper stage has separated from the third stage of the Proton-M and is currently putting the satellite into the designated orbit.
Russia's Luch multifunctional space relay system was put into trial operation in February 2016.
(Web editor: Zhang Kaiwei, Liang Jun)
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