Tag: Proton-M
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Proton-M successfully launches Yamal 601 to GEO
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), ending with a nine-hour, thirteen-minute mission that sent Yamal to geostationary orbit. Yamal 601 is Russia’s most powerful telecommunications satellite. It will be operated by Gazprom Space Systems,…
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Proton-M successfully launches with Blagovest No.13L
Russia has successfully launched a military communications satellite Friday morning, with a Proton-M/Briz-M rocket lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to deploy Blagovest No.13L into geostationary orbit. Launch occurred on time at 05:20 local time (00:20 UTC), although it will be nine hours before Proton’s payload separates into its final orbit. Blagovest No.13L is the…
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Proton-M returns with Russian military launch
Russia’s Proton-M rocket made its first flight in six months Thursday, successfully deploying a Blagovest military communications satellite. Launch occurred from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 04:12 local time (22:12 UTC on Wednesday), ahead of over nine hours of flight to deployment of its passenger. Thursday’s launch carried the Blagovest No.12L satellite, the second…
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ILS Proton M successfully launches AsiaSat-9
International Launch Services (ILS) is upping the pace of its Proton-M launches with another mission following on closely from its Amazonas 5 success. The Russian workhorse – along with its Breeze-M upper stage partner – successfully conducted the launch of the AsiaSat-9 satellite from 200/39 site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch occurred at…
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ILS Proton M successfully launches AsiaSat-9
International Launch Services (ILS) is upping the pace of its Proton-M launches with another mission following on closely from its Amazonas 5 success. The Russian workhorse – along with its Breeze-M upper stage partner – successfully conducted the launch of the AsiaSat-9 satellite from 200/39 site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch occurred at…
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ILS Proton-M successfully launches Amazonas 5
International Launch Services (ILS) launched its Proton-M launch vehicle with the Amazonas 5 satellite on Monday. The Russian workhorse – along with its Breeze-M upper stage partner – launched from the 200/39 site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 19:23 UTC on a launch profile that lasted over nine hours before the spacecraft was…
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ILS Proton-M makes long-awaited return with EchoStar XXI
International Launch Services (ILS) returned to action early on Thursday (local time) with the long-awaited launch of its Proton-M launch vehicle with the EchoStar XXI satellite. The Russian workhorse – along with its Breeze-M upper stage partner – launched from Launch Pad 24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 03:45 UTC on a launch…
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Busy December to mark end of year global launch salvo
Up to 15 orbital launches are set to take place during a very busy December, not counting the opening mission of the month that resulted in the loss of the Progress MS-04 cargo ship that was set to dock with the ISS over the weekend. This month is likely to include the highly anticipated return…
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ILS Proton M successfully launches Intelsat 31 despite underperformance
International Launch Services (ILS) has launched its Proton M rocket on Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian workhorse – successfully lofted the Intelsat-31 communications satellite on a multi-hour flight to its transfer orbit – despite an underperformance from the Proton-M booster than required the Briz-M upper stage to pick up the slack. Proton…
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Proton-M successfully launches first ExoMars spacecraft
Europe’s ExoMars orbiter has begun its journey to the Red Planet on Monday with its launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Russian Proton-M rocket. The first of two ExoMars missions, launch occurred on schedule at 15:31 local time (09:31 UTC) ahead of seven month journey to Mars. ExoMars: The Exobiology on Mars, or ExoMars,…