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Upper block "Breeze-M", intended to launch the satellite "KvettsSat-1" is carried by the gas station. / September 8, 2011 /

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome continues preparations for the launch of space rocket «Proton-M» with the upper stage «Briz-M» spacecraft and telecommunications QuetzSat-1.

Today at the launch site planned transportation booster «Briz-M» of the assembly and test facility area 92A-50 rocket at a gas station (AP) site 31. After delivery of the booster to the work site and connect to it, filling systems, calculations and TsENKI Khrunichev Khrunichev for September 9 and 10 hold tanks of high pressure gas station «Breeze» with propellant components and compressed gases.

Active work on preparation for the launch go to the launch complex «Proton» rocket on a platform 200. Experts TsENKI perform testing gas lines.

At the same time foreign specialists in the finishing chamber assembly and test facility area 92A-50 rocket continues autonomous tests of the satellite QuetzSat-1.

Booster «Proton-M», designed to run the spacecraft ready for launch and is in storage.

Press-service of Russian Federal Space Agency and KC «Southern»

Source: www.roscosmos.ru

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