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The 50th launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket from the Baikonur Space Center to orbit a Eutelsat W2A telecommunications satellite.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 03.04.2009
- Date published: 04.04.2009
- Author: Sergey Kazak
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 2412x3820px, 1.8Mb