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Credit: NASA
Explanation:
The Russian Proton rocket is the tallest rocket in routine use.
First deployed in 1965, the
rocket stands typically 40 meters tall,
can carry unusually heavy payloads into space,
and maintains a high record of reliability.
The Proton can be configured to launch satellites into orbit,
to carry modules to a
space station, and to carry people.
The satellites a
Proton Rocket has launched include
Iridium,
GRANAT, and, just last month,
Sirius 1.
The Proton frequently launched modules that docked with the
Mir Space Station.
Pictured above on July 12, a Proton rocket launches the
Zvezda module which is
scheduled to be added as the third major component of the
International Space Station next week.
The Proton is launched from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakstan.
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