Proton-M/Briz-M carrying Mexico's MexSat-1 (Centenario) communications satellite failed when the third stage's engine shut down prematurely about 490 seconds into flight due to a turbopump defect, destroying the $390 million satellite.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 49th
- of 68 Proton-M Briz-M flights
- Date and time
- 16 May 2015, 05:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- Launches in 2015
- 26th of 87