Machine / system · Secret Dawn - Among the Stars
Proton
Chelomei's heavy launcher, still flying
Proton in the timeline
1965 Proton and the Almaz station conceived
Chelomei develops the Proton heavy rocket and proposes the Almaz, a crewed military reconnaissance space station with its own return capsule and defensive gun.
1984-12-08 Death
Chelomei dies in Moscow; his Proton rocket and station modules outlive him by decades, still flying into the 21st century.
Where the sources are
This object is named in 4 verified source entries across 1 dossier of this book. The entries sit with the people who built or used it, which is where the research recorded them.