A Briz-M propellant tank re-entered the atmosphere on April 29, 2018 after three and a half years in orbit, making a slow decay from an elliptical orbit where it arrived as part of a mission to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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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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Out of public sight, a Proton-M rocket was rolled to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome last weekend in preparation for liftoff as early as Wednesday with the second satellite in a dual-purpose civilian and military communications network
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The year 2017 saw a total of 90 known orbital launch attempts from seven nations and space ports in eight different countries. 2017 had the second most orbital launch attempts of any year in the current century, short of 92 launches in 2014 and showing a slight increase from 2016 that had 85 known launch attempts.
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Just two and a half weeks after making its last orbital delivery, Russia’s Proton-M rocket lit up the night over the Baikonur Cosmodrome again on Thursday
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Conducting its second commercial satellite delivery of the month, Russia’s Proton-M rocket blasted off from Baikonur’s Site 200/39 at 18:52:16 UTC on Thursday
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Conducting its second commercial satellite delivery of the month, Russia’s Proton-M rocket blasted off from Baikonur’s Site 200/39 at 18:52:16 UTC on Thursday, September 28, 2017
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Russia’s Proton-M standing tall atop its remote launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome for liftoff Thursday night on the rocket’s second commercial mission of the month, tasked with deploying the heavy AsiaSat 9 communications satellite to a Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Briz-M propellant tank re-entered the atmosphere on September 15, 2017 after three and a half years in orbit
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Russia’s Proton rocket thundered into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, carrying the U.S.-built Amazonas 5 communications satellite set to deliver TV and Internet Services to South and Central America.
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Russia’s Proton rocket blasted off from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, September 11, 2017 at 19:23:41 UTC with the Amazonas 5 communications satellite.
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Russia’s Proton rocket blasted off from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday, September 11, 2017 at 19:23:41 UTC with Amazonas 5.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket completed an early morning rollout to its Baikonur Launch Pad for liftoff Monday night with a commercial communications satellite for Spanish operator Hispasat.
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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 rocket thundered off from the remote Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday night on a hush-hush mission with a highly-capable communications satellite
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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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A Russian Proton-M/Briz-M rocket blasted off from Site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:45 UTC on June 8, 2017 on a mission to deliver the 6,871-Kilogram EchoStar-21 mobile communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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