Why Is the ISS Being Retired? Since the first segment of the ISS—Zarya—was launched into orbit by a Proton rocket in 1998, it has grown to incorporate 18 pressurized modules, ...

Nauka is currently scheduled to launch on a Proton-M rocket in April 2021 and will be attached to the ISS at the location where the Pirs Docking Compartment is currently located. The module that w ...

MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. A Proton-M carrier rocket with the Ekspress-AMU-3 and Ekspress-AMU-7 telecommunications satellites will blast off from site No. 200 of the Baikonur cosmodrome on ...

The R-56, in its multi-booster version called polyblock, would have been capable of carrying 40 tons of cargo to low-Earth orbit thanks to a series of Proton rocket engines, and could have been ...

TASS/. Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket with the Eutelsat-9B satellite of the European Space Agency has been installed on the launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome, the Khrunichev State Research ...

Salyut 1, the first space station in history, reached orbit unmanned atop a Proton rocket on April 19, 1971. The early first-generation stations were plagued by failures. The crew of Soyuz 10 ...

while the proton-dominated belt is believed to still be wrapped around Earth even now. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! "These are really ...

The rover was designed to launch on a Russian Proton rocket and land on Mars atop a Russian science platform — both integral elements of a Mars mission. "We deeply deplore the human casualties ...

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