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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 ...
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 ...
14 May 2013 16:02:00 Proton-M/Briz-M 8K82KM/11S43 Site 200/39 Eutelsat 3D: Geosynchronous transfer Success [32] Communications, Commercial launch conducted by International Launch Services 935-40 3 June 2013 09:18:31 Proton-M/Briz-M 8K82KM/11S43 Site 200/39 SES-6: Super-synchronous transfer Success [33]
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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]
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.
15 April 2013 Proton-M/Briz-M Baikonur, Kazakhstan Success Anik-G1 satellite [25] 69 14 May 2013 Proton-M/Briz-M Baikonur, Kazakhstan Success Eutelsat-3D satellite [26] 70 3 June 2013 Proton-M/Briz-M Baikonur, Kazakhstan Success SES-6 communication satellite Satellite deployed into super-synchronous transfer orbit [27] 71 30 September 2013
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