Russia launches Proton rocket with British satellite

August 29, 2015 04:12

Russia today successfully launched a Proton rocket with a British satellite in the first such launch since an engine failure in May resulted in a Mexican satellite being destroyed.

A Proton-M rocket carrying an Inmarsat-5 F3 communications satellite launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1144 GMT as scheduled, Russia's space agency said.

"The launch went as planned," spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos Igor Burenkov told AFP.

"All the systems operated remarkably well."

The launch is crucial for Inmarsat, Britain's biggest satellite operator, which said that together with two other satellites, the spacecraft will help create "the world's first globally available, high-speed mobile broadband service, delivered through a single provider."

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