Tag: Khrunichev
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Proton rocket takes off with Express AM8 communications bird
Updated after spacecraft separation. A Proton rocket lifted off at 1900 GMT (3 p.m. EDT) with the Express AM8 communications satellite. Credit: TsENKI/Roscosmos A Proton rocket fired away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, kicking off a nearly seven-hour flight that concluded with the high-altitude delivery of a new Russian communications satellite into…
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New Russian telecom satellite awaits launch Monday
The Proton rocket with Express AM8 rolled out Friday to the Complex 81 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: TsENKI A new multipurpose Russian communications satellite to be parked over the Atlantic Ocean is awaiting launch Monday aboard a Proton rocket. Owned by the Russian Satellite Communications Co., Russia’s state-owned civilian telecom…
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Roscosmos: Design flaw brought down Proton rocket
File photo of a Proton rocket’s third stage (left) being integrated with the second stage (right). Credit: Khrunichev Russia has blamed a design flaw in the Proton rocket’s third stage that went undetected for decades as the cause of a May 16 launch failure. The Russian space agency released the results of an investigation into…
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Proton crash deals another blow to Russian space sector
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…
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Proton rocket ready to loft Mexican telecom satellite
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…
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Live coverage: Proton launch runs into trouble
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.
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Proton rocket launches with Russian telecom satellite
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…
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Second satellite launched for Inmarsat’s Global Xpress network
The Proton rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1231 GMT (7:31 a.m. EST; 6:31 p.m. local time) Sunday. Credit: Khrunichev A commercial satellite launched Sunday on a Russian Proton rocket successfully deployed in orbit thousands of miles above Earth to join Inmarsat’s new communications network providing high-speed data links between airplanes, ships and…
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Live coverage: Proton soars into space with Inmarsat satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of the Inmarsat 5 F2 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.
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Inmarsat satellite ready for liftoff on Proton rocket
A Proton rocket is poised for launch Sunday with the Inmarsat 5 F2 mobile communications satellite. Credit: Roscosmos A Russian Proton rocket is scheduled to take off from Kazakhstan on Sunday with the second spacecraft to serve Inmarsat’s $1.6 billion next-generation satellite communications network geared for getting faster links to customers on the move. The…