May 16th, 2014 by
A Proton-M rocket has failed to place the Ekspress-AM4R communications satellite into orbit. The rocket lifted off at 2142 UTC on 15 May 2014. The failure occurred nine minutes into flight at an altitude of 161 km during the operation of the vehicle’s third stage.
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May 16th, 2014 by
The launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV carrying the Air Force’s Global Positioning System IIF-6 payload on 16 May (UTC) was scrubbed owing to the violation of multiple weather criteria.
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May 16th, 2014 by
Russia has postponed the launch of the Meteor-M No. 2 hydro-meteorological satellite originally scheduled for 19 June to a later date.
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May 16th, 2014 by
The International Space Station (ISS)-RapidScat scatterometer instrument arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 12 May after a cross-country trip from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.
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