🚀 Proton M | 🛰 Eutelsat 9B

Launch date: January 29, 2016 22:20 UTC

Location: Launch Pad 39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

International Launch Services launched a Proton-M rocket carrying the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite. Eutelsat 9B is also the first node of the European Data Relay System (ERDS).

Eutelsat 9B image album from Eutelsat.

Rollout of the Proton-M carrying Eutelsat 9B

Eutelsat 9B during mechanical testing at Airbus.