The thunder of Russia’s Proton rocket returned to the Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday night for the first time in seven months when the former workhorse of the Russian space program soared into the pre-dawn skies over the Kazakh launch site on a military mission.
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The Roscosmos State Corporation on Thursday shared photos of the Proton-M launch with the first Blagovest dual-use communications satellites that will fulfill military and civilian functions
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket is set for liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday night on a semi-secret mission with the first of four planned Blagovest satellites building a communications infrastructure “for Russian domestic use.”
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The rarely-flown single-stick version of Russia’s Soyuz rocket blasted off from the country’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome north of Moscow Friday evening on a highly classified mission for the Russian military with virtually no details known about the satellite it was carrying into orbit.
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A Rockot launch vehicle rumbled into the skies over the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Saturday, carrying into orbit Russia’s GEO IK-2 No. 2 Geodesy satellite in an attempt to close a gap in the collection of geodynamic data.
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Press reports emerged on Monday claiming that Sunday’s successful launch of a Russian Glonass navigation satellite atop a Soyuz rocket was not without trouble.
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Russia’s Soyuz workhorse rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 8:44 UTC on Sunday, embarking on a mission to a 19,100-Kilometer orbit around Earth to deliver a Glonass-M navigation satellite
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Russia’s Soyuz workhorse rocket lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 8:44 UTC on Sunday, embarking on a three-and-a-half-hour mission to a 19,100-Kilometer orbit around Earth to deliver a Glonass-M navigation satellite, replenishing the aging constellation as part of standard upkeep and maintenance.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket is set for liftoff on Sunday from the country’s primary military launch site at Plesetsk on a mission to replenish the Glonass navigation satellite system.
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Originally published on September 15, 2015 A Proton rocket lit up the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday,
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