Russia launched its second mission in a three-day stretch on Wednesday (Oct. 12), sending a communications satellite aloft for the government of Angola. A Proton rocket topped with the Angosat-2 ...

An International Launch Systems Proton rocket orbited Satmex 8 in a 9-hr., 13-min. mission flying from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan late March 26, putting the big Russian rocket back in ...

PROTON LAUNCH: A Russian Proton Breeze M rocket placed the DirecTV 8 satellite in an elliptical geosynchronous transfer orbit after lifting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on May 22. Over the ...

March 13 (Reuters) - Russian space agency Roscosmos said early on Monday it has launched its heavy lift rocket Proton M carrying a Luch-5X relay satellite. "Today at 02:13 Moscow time (2313 GMT Sunday ...