Proton-K
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The Proton-K, also designated Proton 8K82K after its GRAU index or SL-12 after its model number, was a Russian, previously Soviet, carrier rocket derived from the earlier Proton. It was built by Khrunichev, and launched from sites 81/23, 81/24, 200/39 and 200/40 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Key facts
- Rocket.image
- Proton Zvezda crop.jpg
- Rocket.caption
- Launch of a Proton-K carrying the Zvezda module of the International Space Station
- Rocket.manufacturer
- Khrunichev
- Rocket.function
- Heavy-lift launch vehicle
- Rocket.country origin
- Soviet UnionRussia
- Rocket.launches
- 310
- Rocket.success
- 275 ()
- Rocket.fail
- 24
- Rocket.partial
- 11
- Rocket.status
- Retired
- Rocket.sites
- Baikonur, Sites 81/23, 81/24, 200/39 & 200/40
- Rocket.stages
- 3 or 4
- Rocket.first
- 10 March 1967
- Rocket.last
- 30 March 2012
- Rocket.family
- Universal Rocket
- Rocket.derived_from
- Proton
- Rocket.derivatives
- Proton-M
- Rocket/Payload.location
- LEO
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Proton
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Diameter
- 7.4
- Image
- Proton-K-Zarya.jpg
- Height
- 50
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Vehicle description
- List of launches
- Launch failures
- See also
- References
The Proton-K, also designated Proton 8K82K after its GRAU index or SL-12 after its model number, was a Russian, previously Soviet, carrier rocket derived from the earlier Proton. It was built by Khrunichev, and launched from sites 81/23, 81/24, 200/39 and 200/40 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The maiden flight on 10 March 1967 carried a Soyuz 7K-L1 as part of the Zond program. During the so-called Moon Race these Proton/Soyuz/Zond flights consisted of several uncrewed test flights of Soyuz spacecraft to highly elliptical or circumlunar orbits with the unrealized aim of landing Soviet cosmonauts on the Moon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Proton-K” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.