PARIS — An International Launch Services (ILS) Proton rocket on April 25 successfully placed the SES-1 telecommunications satellite into a near-geostationary orbit about nine hours after liftoff from the Russian-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite’s owner, SES of Luxembourg, said it had acquired signals that the satellite was healthy following separation from Proton’s Breeze-M upper stage.
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