On Friday night, September 17, 2021, the railway composition with the Proton-M carrier rocket, the Breeze-M accelerated block and the head fairing was sent from the factory of the State Space Scientific and Production Center named after M. V. Khrunichev (in the state corporation “Roscosmos”) on the Baikonur cosmodrome.
The carrier rockets and the acceleration unit are designed and serially manufactured by the GKNPC named after M.V. Khrunichev. Since 1965, 425 launches of various modifications of the proton missile were held.
Modernized Proton-M carrier rocket with an improved management system, a higher level of operational characteristics and environmental indicators from 2001. “Proton-M”, equipped with the Breeze-M acceleration unit, displays a useful load of up to 3.3 tons to a geostationary orbit, and more than 6 tons on geo-walked orbit.