A Proton-M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 9:31 UTC on Monday, carrying the Russian-European ExoMars 2016 mission, set for a seven-month flight to deliver to Mars the Trace Gas Orbiter to study the Martian atmosphere and the Schiaparelli lander for an Entry, Descent and Landing demonstration.
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ExoMars 2016 is set for liftoff atop a Russian Proton rocket on Monday, blasting off from Site 200/39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 9:31:42 UTC on a mission of ten hours and 44 minutes, delivering the 4,332-Kilogram Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander to a trans-Martian Trajectory for a seven-month transit.
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Russia’s Proton-M Rocket conducted its first launch of the year Wednesday night, successfully lifting the Eutelsat 9B spacecraft to Geostationary Transfer Orbit in a flight lasting nine hours and 12 minutes.
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A Russian Proton rocket raced into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, embarking on a long overnight mission to deliver the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket is set to open a busy year of launches from Russian Cosmodromes on Friday, lifting the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit in a mission lasting nine hours and 12 minutes.
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A Proton-M rocket with the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite hidden under its fairing rolls to the Launch Pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in thick fog, setting up for a nighttime liftoff.
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A Proton-M rocket with the Eutelsat 9B communications satellite hidden under its fairing rolls to the Launch Pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in thick fog, setting up for a nighttime liftoff.
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The year 2015 saw 87 orbital launch attempts from spaceports across the globe – 84 missions reached orbit in a year that saw 82 successful orbital launches. Here are photos of all of 2015’s space launches.
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The year 2015 saw a total of 87 known orbital launch attempts operated by seven nations from space ports in eight countries.
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Thursday night’s Proton-M/Briz-M launch delivered the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to its intended orbit, orbital data issued by the Joint Space Operations Center indicates.
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A Russian Proton rocket thunders into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome, beginning its year-ending mission to deliver the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Proton-M rocket climbed into the night skies over the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday, starting a long overnight mission to deliver the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite to orbit and close out a busy year of launches from Russian Cosmodromes.
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A Russian Proton-M rocket suffered a rare launch scrub Wednesday night as unfavorable winds aloft forced a 24-hour delay of the planned launch of the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite.
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Russia’s Proton-M rocket is set for its year-closing mission on Wednesday, launching the Ekspress AMU-1 communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Russian government-operated Proton-M rocket rolls to its Baikonur Launch Pad to prepare for its year-closing mission, lifting the Ekspress AMU-1 satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A Proton-M rocket blasted off from Site 81/24 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sunday at 0:19 UTC embarking on a classified mission to deliver the Garpun No. 2 military communications satellite to Geostationary Orbit in a mission lasting approximately nine hours.
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A Russian Proton-M rocket has been rolled to the launch pad on Sunday in preparation for the launch of the second Garpun military communications satellite. Liftoff from Site 81/24 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome is planned for 0:17 UTC on December 10.
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