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  • Proton rocket blasts off with Russian telecom satellite

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    File photo of a Proton rocket launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s Express AM6 communications satellite lifted off aboard a Proton rocket Tuesday and reached its targeted geostationary transfer orbit after a nine-hour climb thousands of miles above Earth. Powered by six RD-276 engines generating nearly 2.5 million pounds of thrust,…