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It is quoting prices to put large telecommunications spacecraft in geostationary orbit that dramatically undercut current sector leaders, such as Europe's Ariane 5 and Russia's Proton vehicles.

"By matching the performance of the Proton vehicles with the changing mass and propulsion characteristics of today's spacecraft, it enables us to eliminate costs which aren't necessary," said ILS spokesperson Karen Monaghan.

INTEGRAL is the ESA lead International Gamma-Ray Asuccessfully launchedry, successfully launched the 17th October 2002 from Baikonur with a Proton vehicle.

The US-Russian operation sells the Proton vehicle.

On 18 August, a Proton vehicle put a telecommunications satellite in the wrong orbit.

International Launch Services (ILS), which runs the commercial operations of the Proton vehicle, used a different upper-stage for the Ka-Sat mission.

The commercial market for launching telecoms spacecraft is tightly contested, but has become dominated by just a few companies - notably, Europe's Arianespace, which flies the Ariane 5, and International Launch Services (ILS), which markets Russia's Proton vehicle.

International Launch Services is jointly owned by the British Virgin Islands firm Space Transport, the Russian Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, and the Russian firm RSC Energia and markets both the Atlas and Proton launch vehicles.

The hope is that by bringing Roscosmos into the programme, Russia could supply one of its Proton launch vehicles to send the satellite on its way.

It is assumed that Russian launch vehicle "Proton" and upper state "Block D" deliver a spacecraft into the geocentric hyperbolic orbit.

Due to its versatility and the reliable operating launch vehicle Proton, this space module series has the potential to be adapted for space hotel development.