A Russian Proton rocket failed Thursday (May 15), destroying an advanced $200 million communications satellite.

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 ...

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 ...

Russian space officials say this month's launch failure of a Proton rocket was due to excessive vibrations in the engine of the rocket's third stage.

Satellite owners and insurance underwriters who have booked or insured launches aboard Russia’s Proton rocket in the coming months have little choice but to stick with the rocket despite the ...

PARIS — Russia’s Proton rocket will return to service at the end of December to launch a large commercial telecommunications satellite following a government inquiry that found the vehicle’s ...

The Russian prime minister has ordered an investigation into the spectacular failure of a Proton rocket that veered out of control seconds after liftoff, destroying three navigation satellites.

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.

After six decades, Russia will build its final Proton rocket this year Proton had reliability issues and could not compete with SpaceX's Falcon 9.

A Russian heavy-lift Proton rocket failed to reach the proper orbit after launch Saturday (Dec. 8), putting a communications satellite in a lower-than-planned orbit.

The Breeze-M upper stage of Russia’s Proton heavy-lift rocket on Dec. 9 failed for the third time in 16 months, placing a telecommunications satellite into a too-low orbit.

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 ...