Russia’s Proton-M rocket with a DM-03 upper stage and the Elektro-L No.5 weather satellite lifted off on Thursday during the first launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 2026 and put it on low-Earth ...

Delayed from December 2025 by upper-stage anomalies, the rocket rolled out to the pad on February 9 after fixes, despite Baikonur's harsh winter challenges.

A Proton K rocket launch and a new Proton M contract have Proton prime contractor Khrunichev and launch provider International Launch Services off to a solid start in 2009. The Proton K launch, at ...

Rocket launches have shifted from rare national events to weekly fixtures on livestreams, yet the environmental tab for this new routine is only now coming into focus. The same plumes that lift ...