Launches from Baikonur orbit communications satellites

MOSCOW - Late in 2003, Russia launched two important telecommunications satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. On Dec. 28, a Soyuz-FG/Fregat booster carried the 3,600-pound Amos-2 satellite to orbit. The Amos-2, owned by Spacecom Satellite Communications of Israel, carries 14 Ku-band...

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