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Proton-M carrier missile with Russian Express AM-4 satellite on the launch pad in Baikonur Cosmodrome. The satellite is to provide a wide range of telecommunication services, the key one being broadcasting digital television signal to the far eastern regions where the Russian national network of digital TV started to take shape.
- Categories: Economy, Business & Finance, Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 18.08.2011
- Date published: 18.08.2011
- Author: Oleg Urusov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3168x4752px, 2Mb