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Telecommunications satellites Express-80 and Express-103 will be launched on July 30, the Proton-M carrier rocket needed for the launch will be repaired by June, a space industry source said. The repair schedule at the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, stipulates sending the Proton-M to the Baikonur cosmodrome, at the start of this summer. In April, three Proton-M heavy-lift launch vehicles, designated for launching satellites from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, were returned to the Khrunichev Centre in Moscow. According to the Russian Satellite Communications Company, the Express-103 satellite is designed to provide a package of communications services, such as digital TV, telephony, videoconferencing, data transmission, Internet access, and to deploy satellite networks by applying VSAT technology//Sputnik