Proton launches an SES Americom satellite in its 300th flight
LAUNCH MILESTONE Russia's Proton rocket marked its 300th flight with the June 7 launch of an Alcatel-built communications satellite. Lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Proton with a Breeze M upper stage carried the AMC-9 spacecraft to its geostationary transfer orbit...
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