Last night a Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS-M navigation satellites lost control just seconds after launch and went off course and exploded shortly before hitting the ground a couple ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost exactly to the day a year after Russia lost a Proton-M rocket, yet another Proton-M has failed. In this latest setback to the Russian commercial space program, today’s Proton-M rocket appeared ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...