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Modified R-7 ICBM used to launch Sputnik 3.

Launches: 2. Failures: 1. Success Rate: 50.00% pct. First Launch Date: 27 April 1958. Last Launch Date: 15 May 1958. LEO Payload: 1,327 kg. to: 217 km Orbit. at: 65.0 degrees. Liftoff Thrust: 385,950 kgf. Total Mass: 269,300 kg. Core Diameter: 3.0 m. Total Length: 31.0 m. Flyaway Unit Cost $: 33.00 million. in 1985 unit dollars.

• Stage Number: 0. 4 x Sputnik 8A91-0 Gross Mass: 43,000 kg. Empty Mass: 3,400 kg. Thrust (vac): 99,000 kgf. Isp: 310 sec. Burn time: 130 sec. Isp(sl): 252 sec. Diameter: 2.7 m. Span: 2.7 m. Length: 19.0 m. Propellants: Lox/Kerosene No Engines: 1. RD-107-8D76

• Stage Number: 1. 1 x Sputnik 8A91-1 Gross Mass: 95,000 kg. Empty Mass: 7,100 kg. Thrust (vac): 82,000 kgf. Isp: 315 sec. Burn time: 360 sec. Isp(sl): 246 sec. Diameter: 3.0 m. Span: 3.0 m. Length: 28.0 m. Propellants: Lox/Kerosene No Engines: 1. RD-108-8D77

• Sputnik failure Spacecraft: Sputnik 3. Payload: D-1 s/n 1.

• Sputnik 3 Spacecraft: Sputnik 3. Payload: D-1 s/n 2. Mass: 1,327 kg.

  Variety of scientific data. Research in the upper atmosphere and outer space

• 89 - Semenov, Yu. P., S P Korolev Space Corporation Energia, RKK Energia, 1994.
• 150 - Clark, P S, Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, "Soviet Spacecraft Masses for Earth Orbital Programmes", 1985, Volume 38, page 19.
• 173 - Varfolomyev, Timothy, Spaceflight, "Soviet Rocketry that Conquered Space - Part 1", 1995, Volume 37, page 260.
• 178 - Varfolomyev, Timothy, Spaceflight, "Soviet Rocketry that Conquered Space - designatons", 1996, Volume 38, page 317.