Mexsat 1 – Spaceflight Now

February 26, 2020

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Roscosmos: Design flaw brought down Proton rocket

June 1, 2015

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.

Live coverage: Proton launch runs into trouble

May 15, 2015

Russia’s Proton rocket launched from Kazakhstan at 0547 GMT (1:47 a.m. EDT) Saturday with Mexico’s Centenario communications satellite, but the Russian space agency reported an anomaly occurred some time after liftoff.