the next FGB-derived module – Zarya – launched on a Proton rocket. Zarya was the first module of the International Space Station, and provided power, control, and propulsion for the early Station.

As the International Space Station (ISS ... Since the first segment of the ISS—Zarya—was launched into orbit by a Proton rocket in 1998, it has grown to incorporate 18 pressurized modules ...

Russia’s Khrunichev Space Center has built a Proton-M carrier rocket to deliver the Nauka ... the Nauka lab to the ISS as a back-up of the Zarya compartment (the station’s first module ...

MOSCOW, May 30. /TASS/. Russia’s space agency Roscosmos says it has found out why a Proton-M rocket, launched on May 16, failed to put in space Mexico’s communication Satellite MexSat-1.

The assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) began on November 20, 1998, with the launch of the first module, named Zarya. Since then, 200 people from 15 countries have visited the station.

Each was launched separately and connected in space by astronauts. November 1998 – A Russian Proton rocket places the first piece, the Zarya module, in orbit. December 1998 – The space shuttle ...