Russia Launches Amos 5, Luch-5A Sat

PARIS — Russian space agency Roscosmos launched Israel’s Amos 5 communications satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 11, pairing the 2,000-kg (4,410-lb.) spacecraft with the agency’s Luch-5A data relay satellite atop a Russian Proton M/Breeze M rocket ...