A Russian Proton rocket failed to burn its upper stage engine for as long as planned during a launch from Kazakhstan Feb. 28, leaving the Arabsat 4A satellite stranded in a low orbit ...

International Launch Services (ILS) says the Dec. 8, 2012 failure of a Proton rocket equipped with a Briz M upper stage has been traced to “adverse conditions” that caused damage to a bearing ...

Russian space agency Roscosmos has set the first launch of the Angara-A5M heavy-lift rocket for 2027 after considering the ...

Europe suffered another space disaster last month when a Russian Proton rocket failed to put a European communications satellite into its proper orbit.

But footage from the event shows how mere seconds after the Proton-M spacecraft took off, it lost control and went into a wayward spiral. The rocket then crashed into the ground, followed by a ...

The two spacecraft blasted off together on a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They spent the next seven months cruising to Mars.

Chief among those parameters were the launch vehicle, originally a Russian Proton rocket, and the landing platform, a Russian craft named Kazachok. Both are now out of the picture.