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 Kazakhstan.

Russia plans to restart launches of its Proton-M rocket in September, a top space official said Monday, ending a freeze that was introduced when one of the carrier rockets crashed in July.

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 ...

The Proton setback is particularly worrisome as it comes in the footsteps of the failure of the second main type of Russian booster rocket, the Soyuz, which also suffered a breakdown in its third ...

Here’s how it works. A Russian and European all-sky-survey satellite is safely in space following a successful launch on a Proton rocket in Saturday (July 13). The Spektrum-Röntgen-Gamma ...

MOSCOW – Russia stepped up efforts Friday to resolve a dispute with neighbor Kazakhstan over its demand to reduce the number of commercial satellite launches from the Russian-leased Baikonur ...

A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket delivered a US Echostar-21 telecoms satellite together with the Briz-M upper stage into a support orbit earlier on Thursday BISHKEK, June 8. /TASS/. The Russian ...

Russia's space agency says a Russian Proton-M rocket has successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit after days of launch delays. Roscosmos said the telescope, named Spektr-RG ...

TASS/. Russia’s State Space Corporation, Roscosmos, has postponed the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the American satellite EchoStar-21 from October 10 to November 23, as well as ...