SES's Astra 2G mounted to a Proton rocket.

SES’s Astra 2G satellite, whose Nov. 28 launch on a Russian Proton rocket was scrapped following a last-minute issue with the rocket’s Breeze-M upper stage, will now cede its place on the Proton launch manifest to Gazprom Space Systems of Moscow.

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