With an expensive communication satellite as its payload, a Russian Proton-M rocket broke apart during its third stage last night. The unmanned rocket failed at an altitude of 100 miles — video of the ...

Arabsat-5B, which was launched by a Russian Proton M rocket from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan early this morning, successfully detached from the launch vehicle to then continue its ...

A Russian Soyuz rockets launches the unmanned Progress 23 cargo ship towards the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Oct. 23, 2006. The Russian-buit Progress 22 ...

Isn't it strange that when satellites run out of fuel or a single component breaks down, we just discard them? ESA and European industry have joined forces to make sure that our satellites can live on ...