31.   A Russian Proton-K rocket carrying three satellites took off from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, the ITAR-TASS news agency reported.

32.   An unmanned rocket carrying a satellite exploded soon after take-off from a NASA launch pad here, officials said.

33.   The rocket will later be used to carry small satellites weighing around one ton into a low Earth orbit more cheaply than rockets now in use in Japan.

34.   The Russian Proton rocket is capable of carrying a satellite into orbit.

35.   It is the third time that the European rocket has been used to carry military satellites into space.

36.   It was the third time that the European rocket has been used to carry military satellites into space.

37.   Russia has a launch facility at Plessetsk from which light rockets carrying satellites can lift off.

38.   The Proton can carry a satellite into orbit.