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 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 ...

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 ...

It has been a terrible decade for the Russian launch industry, which once led the world. The country's long-running workhorse, the Proton rocket, ran into reliability issues and will soon be retired.

It has been a terrible decade for the Russian launch industry, which once led the world. The country’s long-running workhorse, the Proton rocket, ran into reliability issues and will soon be retired.

ESA PR 48-2005. On 27 October ESA’s Director of Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Mr Daniel Sacotte signed a contract for the launch preparations and first operations of the European ...

International Launch Services (ILS) says the Dec. 8, 2012 failure of a Proton rocket equipped with a Briz M upper stage has been traced to “adverse conditions” that caused damage to a bearing in the ...