Kosmos-3M
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The Kosmos-3M ( meaning "Cosmos", GRAU index 11K65M) was a Soviet Union and later Russian space launch vehicle, member of the Kosmos rocket family. It was a liquid-fueled two-stage launch vehicle, first launched in 1967 and with over 420 successful launches to its name.
Key facts
- Rocket.name
- Kosmos-3M(R-14 11K65M)
- Rocket.image
- Kosmos-3M 1.svg
- Rocket.upright
- 0.5
- Rocket.caption
- Drawing of the Kosmos-3M with bulges on payload fairing for launching SAR Lupe
- Rocket.function
- Orbital launch vehicle
- Rocket.manufacturer
- Yuzhnoye / NPO Polyot
- Rocket.country origin
- Soviet Union, Russia
- Rocket.stages
- 2
- Rocket.status
- Retired
- Rocket.sites
- Plesetsk Cosmodrome,Site 132Site 133/3Kapustin Yar Site 107
- Rocket.first
- 15 May 1967
- Rocket.last
- 27 April 2010
- Rocket.launches
- 444
- Rocket.success
- 424
- Rocket.fail
- 20
- Rocket/Payload.location
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Rocket/Stage.type
- stage
- Rocket/Stage.stageno
- Second
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Encyclopedic overview
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- See also
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The Kosmos-3M ( meaning "Cosmos", GRAU index 11K65M) was a Soviet Union and later Russian space launch vehicle, member of the Kosmos rocket family. It was a liquid-fueled two-stage launch vehicle, first launched in 1967 and with over 420 successful launches to its name.
The Kosmos-3M used UDMH fuel and AK27I oxidizer (red fuming nitric acid) to lift roughly of payload into orbit. It differed from the earlier Kosmos-3 in its finer control of the second-stage burn, allowing operators to tune the thrust and even channel it through nozzles that helped orient the rocket for the launching of multiple satellites at one time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kosmos-3M” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.