Rocket crashes and burns after blast-off 00:23. A Russian Proton rocket carrying three navigation satellites veered wildly out of control seconds after liftoff Tuesday mornig, cartwheeled above ...

A Proton-M rocket, carrying a Nimiq 6 communication satellite is raised to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, on May 14, 2012. Photo by STR/AFP/GettyImages.

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.

A Russian-made Proton rocket did its job on Monday, successfully blasting off and embarking upon a journey to Mars. Launched from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the rocket is part ...

Russia's workhorse Proton rocket, known at the time under its UR-500 code, made its first test flights in the mid-1960s. It was originally designed as an intercontinental ballistic missile to ...

The rocket’s main payload was the 2.7-tonne Russian Meteor-M2 satellite, the second of its kind launched to watch global weather, the ozone layer, radiation in orbit, the ocean surface ...