SPACE.com -- Proton Delivers Military Satellite into Earth Orbit

A Proton-K rocket lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on May 7, 2002 carrying the DIRECTV-5 satellite.

A Russian Proton K rocket is moved from its assembly hangar to pad 81 at Baikonur Cosmodrome for a March 30, 2002 launch of Intelsat 903.


	Proton Delivers Military Satellite into Earth Orbit By Jim Banke Senior Producer, posted: 04:00 pm ET 25 July 2002

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