The timing for this launch, scheduled for as early as July 15 on a Proton rocket, is notable. For one, the multi-purpose Nauka module is more than a dozen years late due to a lack of budget for ...

The May 16 liftoff of an ILS Proton rocket carrying Mexico's Centenario mobile communications satellite. Credit: video capture via SpaceVidsTV BOSTON — An International Launch Services (ILS ...

A Russian rocket crash yesterday (July 1) was likely caused by an emergency shutdown of the booster's engines 17 seconds into the flight, according to news reports. The unmanned Russian Proton-M ...

As of mid-2018, the rocket line has launched more than 400 times, with most of those launches being successful. Some of Proton's most famous launches include sending the core module of the Russian ...

PARIS—The Breeze-M upper stage of Russia’s Proton heavy-lift rocket on Dec. 9 failed for the third time in 16 months, placing Gazprom Space Systems’ Yamal 402 telecommunications satellite ...

A Russian Proton-M which crashed earlier this month may have failed due to having upside down sensors. A Proton-M rocket crashed headlong into the ground shortly after take off on July 2.

With an expensive communication satellite as its payload, a Russian Proton-M rocket broke apart during its third stage last night. The unmanned rocket failed at an altitude of 100 miles — video ...

Early Tuesday morning local time, at 02:38 UTC on July 2, an uncrewed Russian Proton M rocket crashed and exploded just seconds after takeoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport in Kazakhstan.

A Proton-M rocket, carrying a Nimiq 6 communication satellite is raised to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome, on May 14, 2012. Photo by STR/AFP/GettyImages.

A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying a Glonass navigation satellite veered off course shortly after liftoff early this morning, crashing in flames at the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan.