10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
... Launch Services is based in Virginia, USA, and sells Protons globally for the Russian Khrunichev Space Center. ILS expects the Proton rocket to stay on the market for another decade while the new Russian Angara...
12 March 2018
Satellite-servicing space drones set for launch in 2020
...SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft will reach its destination with the aid of ILS’s Proton Breeze M vehicle when it blasts off from the Baikonur..., when it started out as a two-stage vehicle. “ILS is focused on serving the satellite industry with flexible, and ...
June 2015
Great expectations: launch markets, SpaceX, China, and other new players
... costs by 50 percent by 2020, thus announcing a serious decision to enter the commercial launches market. At the same time, ILS – the main provider of Proton-M rockets – could potentially lose a 15 percent share of the commercial market, going from...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... respectively - can still prove competitive. Khrunichev and its ILS marketing firm have effectively given up competing commercially in the...addition to the ‘big boys’ (Arianespace, Blue Origin, ILS, SpaceX, ULA, etc) new small launch vehicles are being...
27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
... has already announced that the SPACE DRONE™ will be sent into space by U.S based International Launch Services (ILS), but once there, the drone needs to reach a geostationary orbit in order to service ageing satellites. To do this, the...
22 July 2016
The Week in Space: Business Digest, July 15-22
... tasked with determining whether Arianespace has a monopoly on global commercial launch services. However, as both SpaceX and ILS (International Launch Services) provide significant competition, the commission concluded that the global launch market...
