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  • Imagery from Friday’s fiery Proton rocket launch

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    Turkey’s newest communications satellite soared into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Friday, and these spectacular images show the middle-of-the-night liftoff of the spacecraft’s Russian Proton rocket booster before it disappeared into low clouds. The 191-foot-tall rocket launched at 2040:11 GMT (4:40:11 p.m. EDT) Friday, lifting the 5.4-ton Turksat 4B satellite into orbit before deploying…

  • Live coverage: Proton rocket launches with Turksat 4B

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    Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Proton rocket with the Turksat 4B communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.

  • Turkish telecommunications satellite lifts off from Baikonur

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    Updated after spacecraft separation. A Russian Proton rocket boosted a Turkish telecommunications satellite into space Friday after a blazing liftoff from Kazakhstan, and a Breeze M upper stage injected the 5.4-ton broadcasting craft into an orbit ranging more than 20,000 miles above Earth nine hours later. The Turksat 4B satellite — encapsulated in the nose…

  • Proton rolled out for launch of Turkish satellite

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    A Proton rocket with the Turksat 4B communications satellite reached its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after a rail car rollout Tuesday. Credit: Roscosmos Russian ground crews moved a Proton rocket to its launch pad in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for liftoff with a Japanese-built broadcasting platform for Turkey’s national telecom satellite operator Friday. The…

  • Launch of European Mars mission delayed two months

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    Artist’s concept of the Schiaparelli lander separating from the Trace Gas Orbiter on final approach to Mars. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab Officials expect to delay next year’s launch of a European Mars orbiter and lander about two months — from January to March — to remove faulty pressure transducers from the landing craft’s braking system, the…

  • Proton rocket takes off with Express AM8 communications bird

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    Updated after spacecraft separation. A Proton rocket lifted off at 1900 GMT (3 p.m. EDT) with the Express AM8 communications satellite. Credit: TsENKI/Roscosmos A Proton rocket fired away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, kicking off a nearly seven-hour flight that concluded with the high-altitude delivery of a new Russian communications satellite into…

  • Proton rocket takes off with Express AM8 communications bird

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    Updated after spacecraft separation. A Proton rocket lifted off at 1900 GMT (3 p.m. EDT) with the Express AM8 communications satellite. Credit: TsENKI/Roscosmos A Proton rocket fired away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, kicking off a nearly seven-hour flight that concluded with the high-altitude delivery of a new Russian communications satellite into…

  • New Russian telecom satellite awaits launch Monday

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    The Proton rocket with Express AM8 rolled out Friday to the Complex 81 launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: TsENKI A new multipurpose Russian communications satellite to be parked over the Atlantic Ocean is awaiting launch Monday aboard a Proton rocket. Owned by the Russian Satellite Communications Co., Russia’s state-owned civilian telecom…

  • Photos: Proton rocket soars from Baikonur

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    Russia’s Proton rocket returned to flight Friday, blasting off for the first time since a May launch mishap. Relive Friday’s launch with a video replay and photos of the daytime liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The Proton rocket launched at 1144 GMT (7:44 a.m. EDT) from the Kazakh space base and released the third communications…

  • Proton back in action with successful launch for Inmarsat

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    The Proton rocket with Inmarsat 5 F3 launched at 1144 GMT (7:44 a.m. EDT) Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit: ILS Russia’s Proton rocket returned to flight Friday with the successful deployment of a powerful new communications satellite for Inmarsat of London in the workhorse rocket’s first flight since a launch failure in May. The…