ActiveKhrunichev / RoscosmosFirst Launch: 2001-04-07
Proton-M
Russia's long-serving heavy-lift launcher using toxic hypergolic propellants, historically the workhorse for GEO commercial and Russian government payloads.
SpaceStats Reliability & Flight Record
TOTAL LAUNCHES
116
Orbital missions
SUCCESSFUL
105
9 failures
SUCCESS RATE
90.5%
LANDINGS
0
Expendable Vehicle
Khrunichev / RoscosmosFeatured Photography
Orbital Launch Vehicle
Orbit Deck Space Catalog
Technical & Propulsion Specifications
Operator: Khrunichev / RoscosmosVehicle Dimensions & Mass
- Overall Height
- 58.2 m
- Body Diameter
- 7.4 m
- Gross Lift-off Mass
- 705 t
- Stages Count
- 4
- Fairing Diameter
- 4.35 m
Stage 1 (Booster)
- Recovery Mode
- Expendable
Stage 2 & Capacities
- LEO Capacity
- 23 t
- GTO Capacity
- 6.9 t
- Cost per Launch
- $65,000,000
- LEO Price / kg
- ~$2,826 / kg
High-Resolution Photo Gallery & Media
2 photos & renders of Proton-M
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LiftoffOrbital Launch Vehicle
Commercial orbital rocket ascending from coastal launch range.
Orbit Deck Space Catalog
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PadLaunch Pad Gantry
Orbital launch mount and ground support umbilical tower.
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SpaceStats Launch Manifest & Database
0 mission records cataloged in database
No individual manifest entries logged in database for Proton-M.
Summary stats and flight achievements are detailed in the overview above.