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Family: Tsyklon. Country: Ukraine. Status: Hardware. Other Designations: Kosmos 3. Library of Congress Designation: C-1. Department of Defence Designation: SL-8. ASCC Reporting Name: Skean. Article Number: 11K65.
Initial serial production version was the Kosmos-3, built at the Krasnoryarsk Machine Factory. Flew only four times, with two failures, before being succeeded by the modernized production version under the responsibility of NPO Polyot.
SpecificationsLaunches: 4. Failures: 2. Success Rate: 50.00% pct. First Launch Date: 16 November 1966. Last Launch Date: 27 August 1968. LEO Payload: 1,400 kg. to: 400 km Orbit. Payload: 700 kg. to a: 1,600 km orbital trajectory. Liftoff Thrust: 150,696 kgf. Total Mass: 107,500 kg. Core Diameter: 2.4 m. Total Length: 26.3 m. Launch Price $: 10.00 million. in 1994 price dollars.
- Stage Number: 1. 1 x Kosmos-1 Gross Mass: 87,200 kg. Empty Mass: 5,300 kg. Thrust (vac): 177,433 kgf. Isp: 292 sec. Burn time: 130 sec. Isp(sl): 248 sec. Diameter: 2.4 m. Span: 4.4 m. Length: 22.4 m. Propellants: Nitric acid/UDMH No Engines: 1. RD-216
- Stage Number: 2. 1 x Kosmos-2 Gross Mass: 20,135 kg. Empty Mass: 1,435 kg. Thrust (vac): 16,000 kgf. Isp: 303 sec. Burn time: 375 sec. Diameter: 2.4 m. Span: 2.4 m. Length: 6.0 m. Propellants: Nitric acid/UDMH No Engines: 1. 11D49
Kosmos 11K65 Chronology
1966 Nov 16 - FAILURE: Launch vehicle failed to orbit - unknown cause.
1967 Mar 24 - - 11:44 GMT. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Complex: LC41.
- Cosmos 151 Spacecraft: Strela-2. Mass: 875 kg.
Possible test flight.
1968 Jun 15 - Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Complex: LC41. FAILURE: Launch vehicle failed to orbit - unknown cause.
1968 Aug 27 - - 11:31 GMT. Launch Site: Baikonur . Launch Complex: LC41.
Bibliography:- 42 - Isakowitz, Steven J,, International Reference to Space Launch Systems Second Edition, AIAA, Washington DC, 1991.
- 79 - Zak, Anatoly, Spaceflight, "Cosmos Launcher", 1996, Volume 38, page 416.
- 99 - Agapov, V, Novosti Kosmonavtiki, "K zapusku pervovo ISZ serii 'DS'", 1997, Issue 6.
- 445 - Melnik, T G, Voenno-Kosmicheskiy Siliy, Nauka, Moscow, 1997..
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