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 Proton-M ...

From the 200th site of the Baikonur Cosmodrome today, March 13, at 02:12:59.981 MSK, the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Briz-M upper stage and the Luch-5X spacecraft was carried out.

After their production is complete, these four rockets will be added to its present inventory of 10 flight-ready Proton-M rockets ... to the new Angara-A5 rocket. The final flight of the ...

MOSCOW—Roscosmos Space Corp. launched a Proton-M heavy rocket with two Russian communication satellites from Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 7:07 a.m. Dec. 13. The launch initially was ...

In 2021 the enhanced Proton M launch system celebrates the 20th anniversary since the start of its operation. Since then, 100+ missions have been completed with the last 21 launches being ...

The stubby rocket and capsule, named New Shepard after Alan Shepard, the first American in space, rose from the company’s launch site in Van Horn at 9:11 a.m., a thin jet of fire and exhaust ...

Like the previous three Blagovest satellites, Blagovest No.14L rode to orbit atop a Proton-M/Briz-M rocket. This consists of a three-stage Proton-M booster with an additional Briz-M upper stage.

Russia’s Proton-M rocket launched the Yamal 601 communications satellite for Gazprom Space Systems Thursday. Proton lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 22:42 local time (17:42 UTC ...

Russia’s satellite launching answer to Arianespace and SpaceX is the giant Russian Proton rocket, managed and marketed to ‘western ... and these would be switched to the Proton-M (more powerful) ...

Angara is a family of Russia-designed space rockets of different classes, from light to heavy, created as a substitute for the Proton-M and the Rokot vehicles. The new generation rocket uses ...

Rostec Corporation council chairman Yuri Koptev has warned that Angara, Proton's long-delayed successor, isn't expected to replace the older rocket before 2024. Koptev didn't explain why it would ...

As of mid-2018, the rocket line has launched ... 24 feet (7.4 m) Mass: 1.5 million lbs. (680 metric tons) Stages: 2 to 4. The current Proton version uses nitrous oxide and dimethylhydrazine ...