PARIS — Russia’s Proton-M heavy-lift rocket and its Breeze-M upper stage, which placed a $300 million telecommunications satellite in a useless orbit Aug. 18, is preparing to launch three more times in the next six weeks, according to the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, and the rocket’s commercial marketing company.

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Peter B. de Selding was the Paris Bureau Chief for SpaceNews.