A Russian booster rocket carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite blasted into space Thursday after a series of delays, the Federal Space Agency said. The Proton-M rocket carrying the AMC-23, or WorldSat-3, satellite lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at about 5 a.m. The satellite, owned by Princeton, New Jersey-based Ses Americon Inc., will serve customers across the Pacific region, including western North America, East Asia, the South Pacific, Alaska and Hawaii, and provide links to the world's premier regional satellite systems....
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