June 27, 2008 - Baikonur Cosmodrome Russia launched a Proton rocket Thursday night with an early warning satellite (Kosmos 2440) to defend the country against...
A Proton-M Rocket carrying the Kosmos Garpun Satellite launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 22:47 UTC. This marks the first successful Russian rocket launch since the...
March 30, 2012 - Baikonur Cosmodrome. Russia launched a missile detection satellite Friday from the Kazakhstan steppe, marking the last flight of a venerable version...
In an unprecedented space collision, a commercial Iridium communications satellite and a defunct Russian satellite ran into each other on Fabruary 10, 2009 above northern...
November 4, 2011 - Baikonur Cosmodrome. A Proton launcher rocketed into orbit Friday with three Glonass navigation satellites for the Russian government, delivering reinforcements for...
April 29, 2009 - Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Military satellite Kosmos-2450 has been put into the designated orbit by a Soyuz-U rocket. The satellite reached the target...
November 28, 2011 - Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Another spacecraft to reinforce Russia's fleet of Glonass navigation satellites lifted off Monday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on a...