Tag: Khrunichev
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Photos: Proton lifts off with TV broadcasting satellite
Firing into space from the historic Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Russian Proton rocket guided a European television broadcast satellite into orbit Saturday. The 191-foot-tall rocket, fueled by a mixture of hydrazine and nitrogen tetroxide propellants, blasted off at 2137 GMT (4:37 p.m. EST) Saturday with the Astra 2G communications satellite owned by SES of…
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Successful Proton launch puts Astra 2G broadcast satellite in orbit
The Proton rocket lifted off with the ASTRA 2G satellite at 2137 GMT (4:37 p.m. EST) Saturday. Credit: Khrunichev A Russian Proton rocket fired six main engines and soared into space from Kazakhstan on Saturday, deploying a commercial communications satellite owned by SES for a 15-year mission linking Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The…
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Live coverage: Proton rocket blasts off with Astra 2G
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an International Launch Services Proton rocket with the Astra 2G communications satellite for SES of Luxembourg. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Proton rocket on track for launch with European telecom satellite
The Proton rocket with the ASTRA 2G satellite rolled out to its launch pad Wednesday. Credit: Roscosmos A commercial broadcast satellite will blast off from Kazakhstan on Saturday aboard a Proton rocket to transmit television, multimedia and broadband services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Proton rocket is scheduled for launch at 2137:49…
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Russia’s Angara 5 rocket launched on successful maiden flight
The first Angara 5 rocket blasted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 0557 GMT (12:57 a.m. EST; 8:57 a.m. local time) Tuesday. Credit: Russian Ministry of Defence A new Russian rocket designed as a successor to the workhorse Proton booster lifted off Tuesday on a maiden test flight that could signify Russia’s shift away from…
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Photos and video: Angara 5’s thunderous liftoff
Russia’s new Angara 5 rocket, the biggest Russian launcher since the end of the Cold War, made a pre-dawn blastoff from the wintry Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Tuesday on a successful first flight. The 18-story booster launched from Site 35 at Plesetsk, a facility about 500 miles north of Moscow near the Arctic Circle. Five kerosene-fueled…
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Russia set for debut launch of Angara 5 rocket
The first Angara 5 rocket sits on its launch pad at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Credit: Spetsstroy.ru Russia’s powerful new Angara 5 rocket — made of a cluster of five kerosene-fueled main engines — is being prepared for a maiden test flight as soon as Tuesday that could usher in a new era…
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Milestone Proton launch opens queue of grounded commercial missions
The Proton rocket launched at 0016 GMT Monday (7:16 p.m. EST Sunday) with the Yamal 401 communications satellite. Credit: ILS A Russian communications satellite lifted off from a snow-covered launch pad in Kazakhstan on Monday, marking the 400th flight of a Proton rocket and the launcher’s first commercial mission in 10 months. The Yamal 401…
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Live coverage: 400th Proton rocket takes off with Russian satellite
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an International Launch Services Proton rocket with the Yamal 401 communications satellite for Gazprom Space Systems. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Proton rocket blasts off with Russian telecom satellite
File photo of a Proton rocket launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos Russia’s Express AM6 communications satellite lifted off aboard a Proton rocket Tuesday and reached its targeted geostationary transfer orbit after a nine-hour climb thousands of miles above Earth. Powered by six RD-276 engines generating nearly 2.5 million pounds of thrust,…