“The duration of launching MEV-1 - the second in a pair of satellites - into orbit will be a record 15 hours 54 minutes, which is 23 minutes longer than when launching the Inmarsat-5 satellites in 2013 and 2015," RIA Novosti reports.
Earlier, Roscosmos reported that the commercial launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the European telecommunications satellite Eutelsat 5 West B and MEV-1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome will take place on September 30.
On July 31, Proton-M was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome from the Khrunichev Center Rocket and Space Plant.