
Launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Breeze-M booster block carrying the telecommunication satellites "Express-80" and "Express-103" from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Photo: Roscosmos Press Service / RIA News
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To put this into historical perspective: these are 2 Russian domestic communications satellites being launched by a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan. This was between the first Russian invasion of Ukraine (2014) and the second (2022), an era in which many countries had sanctioned the Russian space industry.