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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 ...
The Proton-M/Briz-M phase III configuration provides 6150 kg of GTO performance, an increase of 1150 kg over the original Proton-M Briz-M, while maintaining the fundamental design configuration. On 6 August 2012, the Russian Federal Space Agency lost a Russian and an Indonesian communications satellite in an attempt to launch them into orbit on ...
The SpaceX vehicle disintegrated partway through the seventh uncrewed test flight of the rocket system — about 10 minutes into a mission that launched out of South Texas.
Briz-K, GRAU index 14S12, is a single-piece structure with a conical tank compartment and the engine located in a recess in the fuel tank. Briz-KM (GRAU index 14S45) is an improved version of Briz-K. [4] The Briz-K and Briz-KM were used as a third stage of the Rokot launch vehicles.
Just seconds after Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the first test flight of its biggest and most powerful rocket yet, the craft started tumbling uncontrollably and exploded, leaving a dramatic cloud ...
Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket was “terminated" over the Pacific Ocean shortly after its 6:59 p.m. Thursday liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base, according to a base statement.
As of 13 March 2023, rockets of the UR-500 / Proton family have accumulated 430 launches since 1965, 382 of which were successful, yielding an 88.8% success rate. For launches in a specific decade, see: List of Proton launches (1965–1969) List of Proton launches (1970–1979) List of Proton launches (1980–1989)
SEOUL (Reuters) -One of the stages of North Korea's satellite launch rocket exploded after separation on Tuesday, video captured by an South Korean astronomy observatory showed, in what some ...