These rockets, dubbed "Proton Medium" and "Proton Light," will begin launching in 2018 and 2019, ... They're based on the Proton rocket family the company has been launching since 1996, ...

The Proton Medium and Proton Light, which ILS officials said Krunichev has been quietly developing for Reston, Virginia-based ILS for more than a year, are on track to debut in 2018 and 2019 ...

MOSCOW, July 8. /TASS/. The light modification of Russia’s Proton carrier rocket may be developed in 2018, Khrunichev Space Center Head Andrei Kalinovsky said on Friday. "We hope, in 2018," he ...

The Proton is a family of Russian rockets that have been in use since 1965. The rocket line has lifted off more than 400 times, mostly to launch commercial and Russian government satellites.

MOSCOW, September 13. /TASS/. Russia’s Khrunichev center has developed a "medium" model of the heavy space rocket Proton-M, capable of putting in obit a payload of 2.2 tonnes, the press-service ...

Angara rocket still going forward. Above is a picture of the Russian Angara rocket. The Russian Angara rocket will be able to replace Protons no earlier than 2024. Angara is a family of ...

A Proton rocket launched overnight on its first flight ... to measure the mass of the white dwarf Stein 2051 B by observing the deflection of light from a more distant star as Stein 2051 B passed ...

Russia is suspending the launches of Proton rockets after an unmanned rocket carrier exploded on takeoff this week, a source on the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan said Thursday.

With an expensive communication satellite as its payload, a Russian Proton-M rocket broke apart during its third stage last night. The unmanned rocket failed at an altitude of 100 miles.

A Proton-M rocket carrying three satellites for the GLONASS navigation constellation (Russia’s GPS system) launched on July 2, 2013. The rocket went sideways and then crashed. Russian Space Web – By ...

Scientists hope to start the world’s biggest physics experiment next Tuesday; engineers will try to collide protons in the Large Hadron Collider in the hopes of recreating primordial particles.