Tag: Centenario

  • Roscosmos: Design flaw brought down Proton rocket

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    File photo of a Proton rocket’s third stage (left) being integrated with the second stage (right). Credit: Khrunichev Russia has blamed a design flaw in the Proton rocket’s third stage that went undetected for decades as the cause of a May 16 launch failure. The Russian space agency released the results of an investigation into…

  • Mexico plots way forward after loss of satellite

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    Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, Mexico’s minister of communications and transportation, speaks at a press conference after Saturday’s launch failure. Jim Kramer (center), ILS vice president of sales and marketing, and Boeing Satellite Systems president Mark Spiwak (right) also spoke after the mishap. Credit: Mexico SCT The Mexican government says it will collect a $390 million insurance…

  • Proton crash deals another blow to Russian space sector

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    The Proton rocket lifted off at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT; 11:47 a.m. local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, but ran into trouble about eight minutes later. Credit: ILS TV/Spaceflight Now Failure struck Russia’s troubled space program for the second time in three weeks Saturday, when a Proton rocket carrying a high-tech satellite…

  • Proton rocket ready to loft Mexican telecom satellite

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    A Russian Proton rocket is ready for launch at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT) Saturday. Credit: Khrunichev A Boeing-built communications satellite for the Mexican government is set for liftoff Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Proton rocket. The Mexsat 1 satellite is cocooned inside the nose fairing of the 191-foot-tall Proton…

  • Mexican satellite launch grounded for engineering review

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    File photo of a Proton rocket on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan before a previous mission. Credit: Khrunichev The launch of a Boeing-built Mexican communications satellite on a Proton rocket has been postponed after engineers discovered an anomaly on a similar spacecraft. The Proton rocket was supposed to blast off Tuesday…