Proton-K/D rockets also launched several ... issues and after a dangerous fire), Mir was deliberately deorbited in March 2001. The Proton rocket line expanded to commercial business in the 1990s ...

According to officials, the Proton-K booster rocket carried a Kosmos satellite ... which will eventually replace the 14-year-old Mir space station as the sole permanently manned orbiting complex.

Notably, the Proton rocket has launched elements of four separate space stations—Salyut 6, Salyut 7, Mir, and the International Space Station. But the rocket, with a lift capacity of 23.7 metric ...

On 19 April 1971, a Proton-K rocket lifted off from Site 84/24 to deploy ... Pad 23 was also used for the launch of two modules of the Mir space station – Spektr and Priroda – and the Zarya ...

PARIS—The Breeze-M upper stage of Russia’s Proton heavy-lift rocket on Dec. 9 failed for the third time in 16 months, placing Gazprom Space Systems’ Yamal 402 telecommunications satellite ...

The rocket was named after these payloads. With a modified second stage and a new third stage, the UR-500 became the Proton-K. This rocket allowed the USSR to deploy most of its heaviest ...

MOSCOW, March 30 (Itar-Tass) — The Proton-K carrier rocket with a military spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome on Friday. “The launch of the carrier rocket Proton-K with a ...

A Russian space rocket launch went sour Friday, destroying the booster and its payload, Russian state media said. Nine minutes after the Proton-M rocket lifted off in Baikonur, Kazakhstan ...

Russia launched a military satellite aboard a Proton K rocket March 30 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, according to the Russia’s Itar-Tass news agency. The launch of the Cosmos-2479 ...

Russia’s Proton M rocket will remain grounded for another three and a half months, the country’s deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin said this weekend. The heavy carrier was last used nearly ...

But, what are the biggest rocket engines out there ... This high-powered Russian engine powers rockets such as the Proton-K, which was used to launch modules up to the International Space Station.