Proton-K/D rockets also launched several Luna missions. Notable examples are the Luna 16 and Luna 17 missions in 1970. ... Other Briz-M failures occurred during missions in May 2014 and May 2015.

ILS has been at a disadvantage going after this market because of the fixed costs of launching the Proton Breeze M, which is larger than SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. ILS's other major competitor is ...

The Proton rocket, Russia’s primary commercial launch vehicle, faces a life-and-death struggle to remain a competitive player on the international launch market, industry sources say.

The Russian Proton-M booster, which is nearing retirement, has 115 launches, the US-made Atlas V rocket has 99 launches, and the Chinese Long March 2D rocket has 89 launches. Forever Falcon 9?

Russia launched a military satellite aboard a Proton K rocket March 30 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to the Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency. The launch of the Cosmos-2479 ...

The rockets that shoot satellites, astronauts and other craft into space can weigh hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of pounds. So, they need a pretty big engine to get off the ground.

A Proton rocket launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday (Dec. 26). See how it delivered a new communications satellite into orbit. ... Like other satellites owned by RSCC, ...

Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket is far from the first unmanned rocket to explode. Here are some others. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

MOSCOW, March 30 (Itar-Tass) — The Proton-K carrier rocket with a military spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Friday. “The launch of the carrier rocket Proton-K with a ...

Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket is far from the first unmanned rocket to explode. Here are some others. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket is far from the first unmanned rocket to explode. Here are some others. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

Does the proton decay? While this was a famous prediction of Grand Unified Theories (GUTS) developed in the 1970s and 1980s, experimentalists have ruled it out—or rather, put lower limits on its ...