Proton rocket launch with GLONASS navigation satellites

Sept. 25, 2008 - Baikonur Cosmodrome.
A Russian Proton booster rocket blasts off from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008. The rocket carried three GLONASS satellites into orbit (Kosmos 2442 - Kosmos 2443 and Kosmos 2444).
GLONASS is a Russian equivalent of the U.S. GPS

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[bombarderoazul]

This baby is capable of placing around 21 tons into low earth orbit, it is one of the most reliable heavy boosters on earth.

[apollosaturn5]

That is a water vapor contrail similar to airplanes flying at high altitude. The first stage engines burn nitrogen tetroxide as oxidizer and unsymetric dimethyl hydrazine (UDMH) for fuel. This gives it the distinctive color. If you look at the Titan II ICBM you're going to see a similar color. The first stage of the Titan II burns Aeroxine 50 (50% hydrazine & 50% UDMH) for fuel and nitrogen tetroxide for oxidizer. Engines oxidizing with nitrogen tetroxide give a distinctive reddish brown smoke.

[henriettadiehl]

cool clip .. nice one.. thanks for sharing .. keep it up



[malamagr]

@HyunjoonMoon It's the fuels being used, different fuels make flames with light in different wavelengths, some invisible to eye and camera even though it's actually as 'bright' as any other rocket. Same with race car fuels, i.e. gasoline burns bright yellow, methanol burns almost invisibly. The bright flames of space shuttle boosters are from solid fuels, Soyuz burns kerosene and is medium-bright, space shuttle itself burns hydrogen with little visible flame, and Proton burns hypergolics.

[Xdreamer89]

AWESOME! Truly awesome!

[Xytan4]

@anisocoro Proton actually started life as a "super ICBM". It was designed to throw a 100 megaton (or larger) warhead over a distance of 13,000 kilometers.

[iam1and1isme]

there goes my right earphone :| woah that thing is mighty loud!!

[anisocoro]

Could Protob be used as ICBM with massive thrw-weight?

[Alllfffrrreeedddooo]

zombies !!!!!!!

[BringBack500s]

Proton is deffo my favorite launch vehicle, it looks right, it sounds right, and any time you want 20 tons in LEO it will deliver.

[artwleb]

A white cloud at liftoff is steam..... water is played on the flame defector for cooling and sound acoustics...........