A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a Mexican telecommunications satellite experienced a malfunction minutes after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and subsequently burned up over ...

The Proton rocket stands 174 feet tall (53 meters) and has three main stages. The Breeze-M fourth stage can be restarted to put payloads into high orbit. You may like What the Soviet Venus Probe's ...

Russia’s Proton M rocket will remain grounded for another three and a half months, the country’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said this weekend. The heavy carrier was last used nearly ...

An ominous chemical cloud To be specific, the Proton-M — a booster rocket used for decades to carry commercial and military payloads — relies on a combination of unsymmetrical ...

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 ...

Update at 3:25 p.m. ET on July 10. The Russian Proton-M rocket that fell out of the sky last week may have been doomed by sensors that were installed upside down, according to an unconfirmed ...

“It’s lucky that it didn’t end in an accident,” he told journalists. The Proton-M rocket, a stalwart of the Russian space program, is used primarily for military and commercial satellite ...

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 ...

Russia has successfully launched a Proton-M rocket with a European communications satellite onboard from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The launch had originally been scheduled for July ...

Kazakhstan expresses concerns over the environmental impact of the blast, which cost $200 million to the Russian space industry. A Proton-M launch vehicle carrying three Glonass-M satellites ...

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 ...

Proton M will be launched from the central launching pad at about 20 seconds or so. When you look at this movie, you can see that it obliquely stretches at a very early stage. As it is, the rocket ...