UR-500

In-active

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (KhSC)

July 16, 1965

Description

Proton is an expendable launch system used for both commercial and Russian government space launches. The first Proton rocket was launched in 1965.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    46.28 m
  • Diameter
    4.15 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    4.15 m
  • Launch Mass
    595.0 T
  • Thrust
    8847.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    UR-500
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    UR-500
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    8400.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center

Government
Director: Andrey Vladimirovich Kalinovskiy
KhSC 1916

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center is a Moscow-based producer of spacecraft and space-launch systems, including the Proton and Rokot rockets and is currently developing the Angara rocket family. The Proton launch vehicle launches from Baikonur and Rokot launches from Baikonur and Plesetsk. Angara will launch from Plesetsk and Vostochny.

UR-500 | Proton 3

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 6, 1966, 12:57 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The N-4 series of satellites, a.k.a. Proton-1, carried instruments to study super-high energy cosmic particles.

Low Earth Orbit
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UR-500 | Proton 3a

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
March 24, 1966, 2:39 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The N-4 series of satellites, a.k.a. Proton-1, carried instruments to study super-high energy cosmic particles.

Low Earth Orbit
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UR-500 | Proton 2

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Nov. 2, 1965, 12:28 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The N-4 series of satellites, a.k.a. Proton-1, carried instruments to study super-high energy cosmic particles.

Low Earth Orbit
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UR-500 | Proton 1

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
July 16, 1965, 11:16 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The N-4 series of satellites, a.k.a. Proton-1, carried instruments to study super-high energy cosmic particles.

Low Earth Orbit
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