Kosmos 8K63 LV - Credit: © Mark Wade. 767 bytes. 52 x 229 pixels.

Prototype of light satellite launcher using as a first stage the Yangel R-14 (8K65) IRBM. In 1961 Isayev and Reshetnev developed the Voskhod space launch system on the basis of the R-14. The initial version of the two stage rocket was designated Kosmos-1. The first 'Voskhod' launch complex was at Baikonur, a modification of one of the pads at the R-16 ICBM launch complex 41. The protoype system was launched eight times before production was handed over to the Krasnoryarsk Machine Factory.

Launches: 8. Failures: 1. Success Rate: 87.50% pct. First Launch Date: 18 August 1964. Last Launch Date: 28 December 1965. 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 65S3 intermediate launch vehicle development authorised. Spacecraft: Meteor, Strela-1, Strela-2.

  Central Committee of the Communist Party and Council of Soviet Ministers Decree 'On the Creation of the Space Carrier 65S3--start of work on a launch vehicle based on the R-14 for launch of the Meteor, Strela, and Pchela satellites.' was issued.

• Cosmos 38 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 39 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 40 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Strela-1 Spacecraft: Strela-1.

• Strela-1 Spacecraft: Strela-1.

• Strela-1 Spacecraft: Strela-1.

• Cosmos 56 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 55 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 54 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 62 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 63 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 61 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 74 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 75 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 73 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 72 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 71 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 84 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 81 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 82 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 83 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 80 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 87 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 88 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 90 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 89 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 86 Spacecraft: Strela-1. Mass: 50 kg.

• Cosmos 103 Spacecraft: Strela-2. Mass: 875 kg.

  Possible test flight.

• 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..