Launch Vehicle

N1

retired

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Specifications

Status: retired
Height: 105 m
Diameter: 17 m
Mass: 2,750,000 kg
Stages: 5
Payload to LEO: 95,000 kg
First flight: 1969-02-21
Total launches: 4
Success / Fail: 0 / 4

The N1 was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit, acting as the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V. It was designed with manned extra-orbital travel in mind. Development work started on the N1 in 1959. Its first stage is the most powerful rocket stage ever built. (checked 2019)