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==Legacy== The Proton satellites were heralded by Soviet media as the start of a new stage in Soviet space exploration.<ref name=challenge>{{cite book|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt1.pdf|title=Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945β1974|author=Asif A. Siddiqi|publisher=NASA|location=Washington D.C.|oclc=1001823253|page=339-440, 967, 971}}</ref> The success of Proton afforded Chelomey a status in the Soviet rocket industry equal to that of [[Sergei Korolev]] of [[OKB-1]] (developer of [[Sputnik]], [[Vostok (spacecraft)|Vostok]], and [[Voskhod (spacecraft)|Voskhod]]) and [[Mikhail Yangel]] of [[OKB-456]] (an important designer of military missiles). The UR-500, originally named "Gerkules" ({{langx|ru|ΠΠ΅ΡΠΊΡΠ»Π΅Ρ}}) ('[[Hercules]]'), was renamed "Proton" when news reports conflated the launcher and its payload. Though the Proton was never used in the ICBM role it had been built for, the rocket became an extraordinarily successful booster for commercial satellites, serving well into the 1990s.<ref name=challenge/>
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