flights under the auspices of ILS. Today’s mission was the first Proton rocket launch of the year for ILS. The vehicle used today was Proton vehicle with a Breeze M upper stage, which lifted off from ...

An unmanned Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites has crashed to earth. A state-run television station captured the moment. Within seconds of blast off it was clear the Proton-M booster ...

March 13 (Reuters) - Russian space agency Roscosmos said early on Monday it has launched its heavy lift rocket Proton M carrying a Luch-5X relay satellite. "Today at 02:13 Moscow time (2313 GMT Sunday ...

An International Launch Systems Proton rocket orbited Satmex 8 in a 9-hr., 13-min. mission flying from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late March 26, putting the big Russian rocket back in ...

new ViaSat-1 satellite is currently scheduled to launch in late September on a Proton rocket, and given the need to perform an investigation in the exact cause of the rocket's failure and ensure that ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian space officials say this month’s launch failure of a Proton rocket was due to excessive vibrations in the engine of the rocket’s third stage. Igor Komarov, head of the Roscosmos ...

PROTON LAUNCH: A Russian Proton Breeze M rocket placed the DirecTV 8 satellite in an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit after lifting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on May 22. Over the ...

McLEAN, Va., July 13, 2004 — International Launch Services (ILS) will launch the DIRECTV 8 satellite in the spring of 2005 on a Proton M/Breeze M vehicle, under a new contract with DIRECTV. Financial ...

A Russian rocket just crashed seconds after it was launched from a spaceport in Kazakhstan. Footage from local news channels shows how the rocket wobbled through the sky as it rose into the air, ...

The launch of Proton-M equipped with the Briz-M upper stage is scheduled for 15:17 Moscow time MOSCOW, December 11 (Itar-Tass) — Russia’s carrier rocket Proton-M with the Luch-5A data relay satellite ...

ALMATY (Reuters) - A Proton-M carrier rocket carrying a Mexican satellite malfunctioned and burnt up over Siberia minutes after launch on Saturday, the latest in a series of mishaps for Russia's space ...