The launch was to be the fourth for the Angara-A5, a heavy-lift version of the new Angara family of rockets that has been developed to replace the Soviet-designed Proton rocket. The previous three ...

Russia on Thursday successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from ... of the new Angara family of rockets that have been developed to replace the Soviet-designed Proton rockets.

"It is true that at the moment the rocket is far more costly than the Proton, but it will not be so forever," Koptev explained. Angara is a family of Russia-designed space rockets of different ...

A Russian Proton-M rocket launched on Wednesday morning at 06:17 EDT (10:17 UTC) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Commercially contracted and managed by ILS, the mission used a Proton ...

Russia’s carrier rockets of the Angara family in the near future will be ... "I said in 2002 that with the Proton rocket we would win at least 50% of the market. In 2-2.5 years, that is, in ...