| Rocket Fails Upon Satellite Orbit Insertion |
 | The Russian-built Proton-M rocket launched from the Kazakhastan Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday at 02:18 a.m. Moscow time, carrying a U.S. telecommunications satellite, but was unsuccessful in putting it in the planned orbit because of an engine failure. The satellite is owned by the SES Americom telecommunications provider, built by Lockheed Martin and has the ability to alter its telecommunication coverage by simply patching it ... [read more >>] |
| 15 March 2008, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |