A Proton rocket with a Breeze-M upper stage is scheduled to launch the Luch 5A satellite, and Amos 5 satellite, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 11:17 GMT, 11th December, 2011.
Meeting the demand of sending telemetric and research data, two transmitter satellites, Luch 5A and Luch 5B, will be launched by the end of 2011 to fully cover the International Space Station (ISS), Federal Space Agency officials have said.