* Astronomy

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International Launch Services (ILS), a world leader in providing mission and launch services to the commercial space industry, successfully carried the Intelsat 16 satellite to orbit for Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, on an ILS Proton. The ILS Proton vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 6:39 a.m. local time (7:39 p.m. EST, 00:39 GMT).  This was the 19th consecutive successful Proton mission in 18 months.
After a 9 hour 34 minute mission, the Breeze M successfully released the Intelsat 16 satellite into a near geostationary orbit. The spacecraft then utilised its on board fuel to manoeuvre to its geostationary orbit location at 58 degrees West Longitude.
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Proton-M carrier rocket with the booster block Breeze-M and the American satellite Intelsat-16 were launched from the cosmodrome Baikonur today at 06.40 Astana time, the agency reports citing RosBusinessConsulting (RBC).
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Intelsat 16 should be in a circular parking orbit.

Three more Breeze-M engine firings are scheduled to transfer the satellite into a circular near-geosynchronous orbit (altitude of 23,412 miles) with a zero degree inclination.

Third stage engine will burn for about 4 minutes.