BAIKONUR. June 30 (Interfax) - The first Proton-M mission after the May accident has been scheduled for August 23; the launch vehicle is due to put into orbit the British telecom satellite Inmarsat-5F3, a source in the Baikonur spaceport told Interfax on Tuesday.
"The new date for launching the British satellite has been approved. It [the launch] is scheduled for August 23. The spaceport will resume pre-launch preparations shortly," the source said.
It was planned at the start to launch the British satellite on May 29. But the launch was delayed after the failed mission of a Proton-M rocket carrying the Mexican satellite MexSat-1 on May 16.