It has been nearly 10 years since Russia launched the first Angara test flights. The heaviest version of the Angara rocket family—the Angara A5—is about to make its fourth flight, and like the three ...

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 ...

Russia's second attempt to test-launch a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex was aborted on Wednesday. The launch of the Angara-A5 rocket from the Vostochny spaceport was ...

The Proton K/Block DM rocket lifted off at 11:15 a.m. local time (1:15 a.m. for commercial flights managed by ILS, based in McLean, Va. This was also ILS’ second mission in seven hours. At 6:05 p.m.

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.

Controllers are checking out two large spacecraft built by Russia’s ISS-Reshetnev after their successful tandem launch on a Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome Nov. 2. Separating from the Proton’s ...

The Sept. 17 return to flight of Russia’s Proton rocket was postponed Sept. 11 for technical reasons associated with the Russian launch vehicle. Marketed by International Launch Services (ILS) of ...

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, ...

In July 2013, an immense heavy-lift launch vehicle in Kazakhstan was ready to carry three sophisticated Soviet navigation satellites to outer space. Many people had gathered on the facility’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Proton M is a Russian heavy-lift ...

(Adds potential delay to Russian satellite navigation system launch) ALMATY, Sept 6 (Reuters) - A Russian space rocket carrying a Japanese satellite crashed on Thursday after blasting off from a ...