Voting for the SpaceNews Awards for Excellence & Innovation is now open at SpaceNews.com. Anno 2019 is die grotere neuskegel in gebruik. Six RD-275M engines propel a Proton-M off the launch pad – credit: Roscosmos. In de beginjaren van de Proton werden de draagraketten voornamelijk gebruikt om kunstmanen in een baan om de Aarde te brengen. The International Launch Services, ILS, a US-based subsidiary of GKNPTs Khrunichev markets the Proton-M rocket to commercial customers around the world. Later werden de Protons ook ingezet voor het lanceren van de Saljoet-ruimtestations, Mir-modules en de Zarja- en Zvezda-module van het Internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Information Satellite Systems (ISS) Reshetnev served as the manufacturer.

The first phase of upgrades increased the Proton-M's payload to the geostationary transfer orbit from 5 tons to 5.65 tons.

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became even more powerful, thanks to a new version of the RD-253 engines on its first stage, designated RD-276.

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