Talk:Proton-M

Environmental impact

I have removed the sentence "Clusters of cancers have been found in the Republic of Altai[9]" as the quoted article does not say this. The accusations are from local people not from scientific research. The article says "Very little research has been carried out or published - but local people believe they are suffering."Chris.Bristol (talk) 00:35, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

About the forces that tore off the payload and second stage from rocket of the July 2 launch

The rocket wasn't traveling all that fast - aerodynamic forces would have been small, I doubt that aerodynamic forces were the cause of the stage separation. So what do I believe was the cause? The rocket was rotating along its axis at a fairly good rate and this axis of rotation was itself rotating over - That causes gyroscopic forces. It was these gyroscopic forces that tore apart the rocket at it's weak points - the places where the stages join together. --Aflafla1 (talk) 01:45, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Number of launches

Is there a better way to determine the number of launches than searching for all Proton-M launches in List of Proton launches (2000–2009) and List of Proton launches (2010–2019)? I counted 38 launches in the first and 36 on the second page (= 74 in total). There were 3 failures on the first and 4 failures (+1 partial) on the second page (= 7 failures, 1 partial failure). The infobox here states 69 launches (5 missing), with 4 (3 to many) partial failures and 4 failures (3 missing). Maybe the criteria for the infobox are different what a partial and total failure is. Should we use the numbers from the list? — xZise [disk] 20:18, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

Successor

Is it planned to replace this rocket with a new one? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.22.22.85 (talk) 09:42, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

The Angara rocket will replace the Proton-M in the near future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.63.75.136 (talk) 17:54, 20 June 2016 (UTC)