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Commercial launch vehicle.

Launches: 2. Failures: 1. Success Rate: 50.00% pct. First Launch Date: 09 September 1982. Last Launch Date: 23 October 1995. LEO Payload: 890 kg. to: 463 km Orbit. Liftoff Thrust: 173,830 kgf. Total Mass: 87,407 kg. Core Diameter: 1.2 m. Total Length: 15.2 m. Launch Price $: 18.00 million. in 1994 price dollars.

• Stage Number: 0. 4 x Castor 4A Gross Mass: 11,743 kg. Empty Mass: 1,529 kg. Thrust (vac): 48,774 kgf. Isp: 266 sec. Burn time: 56 sec. Isp(sl): 237 sec. Diameter: 1.0 m. Span: 1.0 m. Length: 9.1 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. TX-780

• Stage Number: 1. 2 x Castor 4B Gross Mass: 11,400 kg. Empty Mass: 1,400 kg. Thrust (vac): 43,910 kgf. Isp: 281 sec. Burn time: 64 sec. Isp(sl): 220 sec. Diameter: 1.0 m. Span: 1.0 m. Length: 9.2 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. TX-780B

• Stage Number: 2. 1 x Castor 4B Gross Mass: 11,400 kg. Empty Mass: 1,400 kg. Thrust (vac): 43,910 kgf. Isp: 281 sec. Burn time: 64 sec. Isp(sl): 220 sec. Diameter: 1.0 m. Span: 1.0 m. Length: 9.2 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. TX-780B

• Stage Number: 3. 1 x PAM-D Gross Mass: 2,141 kg. Empty Mass: 232 kg. Thrust (vac): 6,848 kgf. Isp: 292 sec. Burn time: 88 sec. Isp(sl): 0 sec. Diameter: 1.2 m. Span: 1.2 m. Length: 2.0 m. Propellants: Solid No Engines: 1. Star 48

• Research and Development Flight

  Suborbital.

• Meteor RV Spacecraft: Meteor (USA). Payload: Meteor RV.

• Meteor Spacecraft: Meteor (USA). Payload: Meteor SM.

• 42 - Isakowitz, Steven J,, International Reference to Space Launch Systems Second Edition, AIAA, Washington DC, 1991.