"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 ...

By decision of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Angara-A5 carrier rocket must ... developed to replace Proton-M and Rokot launchers. As compared to them, the new family uses environmentally ...