OREANDA-NEWS. November 1, 2008. Baikonur space port: intensive prelaunch processing for Proton-M/Breeze-M/Astra-1M launch continues at Baikonur. Today, loading of the propellant components into the Breeze-M low pressure tanks continues at the filling station. It is planned to complete it tonight.

A meeting of the State Board to take place at Baikonur this evening will decide about starting the roll-out. The roll-out is to be performed on Nov. 2, in the morning. The launch of Luxembourg`s Astra-1M telecommunication satellite by Proton-M/Breeze-M is scheduled for Nov. 5 at 23:44 Moscow time.