Baikonur on Sunday night, are in elliptical orbits with an apogee (farthest point from the Earth’s orbit) of 18 to 35 thousand kilometers and a perigee (closest point to the Earth’s orbit) from 500 to 3 thousand miles.
Carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the upper stage “Briz-M” and the communications satellite “Yamal-402” was launched on Saturday night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Rocket worked normally, but the satellite separated from the upper stage for 4 minutes ahead of schedule and was an unplanned orbit.
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