Tag: Breeze M

  • ExoMars nears launch, thanks to nonstop work in factory

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    Artist’s concept of Europe’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter at Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Working around the clock to meet a 12-day launch window in March, European engineers are putting the final touches on a Mars orbiter that could shed light on whether tiny microbes or geologic activity still linger on the barren planet. A stationary…

  • Imagery from Friday’s fiery Proton rocket launch

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    Turkey’s newest communications satellite soared into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, and these spectacular images show the middle-of-the-night liftoff of the spacecraft’s Russian Proton rocket booster before it disappeared into low clouds. The 191-foot-tall rocket launched at 2040:11 GMT (4:40:11 p.m. EDT) Friday, lifting the 5.4-ton Turksat 4B satellite into orbit before deploying…

  • Turkish telecommunications satellite lifts off from Baikonur

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    Updated after spacecraft separation. A Russian Proton rocket boosted a Turkish telecommunications satellite into space Friday after a blazing liftoff from Kazakhstan, and a Breeze M upper stage injected the 5.4-ton broadcasting craft into an orbit ranging more than 20,000 miles above Earth nine hours later. The Turksat 4B satellite — encapsulated in the nose…

  • Proton rolled out for launch of Turkish satellite

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    A Proton rocket with the Turksat 4B communications satellite reached its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after a rail car rollout Tuesday. Credit: Roscosmos Russian ground crews moved a Proton rocket to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for liftoff with a Japanese-built broadcasting platform for Turkey’s national telecom satellite operator Friday. The…

  • Proton back in action with successful launch for Inmarsat

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    The Proton rocket with Inmarsat 5 F3 launched at 1144 GMT (7:44 a.m. EDT) Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: ILS Russia’s Proton rocket returned to flight Friday with the successful deployment of a powerful new communications satellite for Inmarsat of London in the workhorse rocket’s first flight since a launch failure in May. The…

  • Proton crash deals another blow to Russian space sector

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    The Proton rocket lifted off at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT; 11:47 a.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but ran into trouble about eight minutes later. Credit: ILS TV/Spaceflight Now Failure struck Russia’s troubled space program for the second time in three weeks Saturday, when a Proton rocket carrying a high-tech satellite…

  • Proton rocket ready to loft Mexican telecom satellite

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    A Russian Proton rocket is ready for launch at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT) Saturday. Credit: Khrunichev A Boeing-built communications satellite for the Mexican government is set for liftoff Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Proton rocket. The Mexsat 1 satellite is cocooned inside the nose fairing of the 191-foot-tall Proton…

  • Live coverage: Proton launch runs into trouble

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the Mexsat 1 communications satellite aboard an International Launch Services Proton rocket. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Mexican satellite launch grounded for engineering review

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    File photo of a Proton rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before a previous mission. Credit: Khrunichev The launch of a Boeing-built Mexican communications satellite on a Proton rocket has been postponed after engineers discovered an anomaly on a similar spacecraft. The Proton rocket was supposed to blast off Tuesday…

  • Proton rocket launches with Russian telecom satellite

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    The Proton rocket with Express AM7 lifted off at 2205 GMT (6:05 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, or 4:05 a.m. local time Thursday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos A Proton rocket and Breeze M upper stage deployed a Russian communications satellite in orbit Thursday after liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The satellite’s…