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This was the 326th launch of a Proton, the 16th Proton-M/Briz-M launch, and the 41st Proton launch to be conducted by ILS. [13] It features more efficient first stage engines, updated avionics, lighter fuel tanks and more powerful vernier engines on the Briz-M upper stage, and mass reduction throughout the rocket, including thinner fuel tank ...
Following the failure, the Blok DM-03 was grounded for further tests, with a Proton-M/Briz-M and several smaller Soyuz-2 rockets being used for GLONASS launches over the next 30 months. [ 5 ] The July 2013 flight, which marked the Blok DM-03's return to flight was another GLONASS launch, also conducted from Site 81/24, with liftoff occurring on ...
On 2 July 2013, a Proton-M launching three GLONASS navigation satellites experienced a failure reminiscent of the 1960s disasters shortly after liftoff when the booster crashed near LC-39 at Baikonour, ending a 30-year unbroken stretch without a first stage failure; all future Proton flights were suspended pending investigation. [25]
Proton-M/DM-03 8K82KM/11S861-03 Site 81/24 Ekspress AM8: Geosynchronous Success Communications 935-56 16 October 2015 20:40:11 Proton-M/Briz-M 8K82KM/11S43 Site 200/39 Türksat 4B: Geosynchronous transfer Success [49] Communications, Commercial launch conducted by International Launch Services 535-44 13 December 2015 00:19:00 Proton-M/Briz-M ...
As a result of a series of reliability problems, and proximate to the failure of a July 2013 Proton M launch, a major reorganization of the Russian space industry was undertaken. The United Rocket and Space Corporation was formed as a joint-stock corporation by the government in August 2013 to consolidate the Russian space sector.
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As of July 2013, estimates of more than 170 million debris smaller than 1 cm (0.4 in), about 670,000 debris 1–10 cm, and approximately 29,000 larger pieces of debris were in orbit. [ 41 ] As of July 2016 [update] , nearly 18,000 artificial objects were orbiting above Earth, [ 42 ] including 1,419 operational satellites.