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Rocket: Proton M with Breeze M upper stage
Payload: Anik F1R
Date: Sept. 8, 2005
Time: 2153 GMT (5:53 p.m. EDT)
Site: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
Satellite feed: Intelsat Americas 6, Transponder 9, C-band, 93° West




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