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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 50 m
- Diameter
- 2.95 m
- Mass
- 300,000 kg
- Stages
- 2
- Thrust
- 4,054 kN
- Payload to LEO
- 6,600 kg
- First flight
- 1971-12-27
- Total launches
- 8
- Success / Fail
- 8 / 0
The Soyuz was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket designed in the 1960s by OKB-1 and manufactured by State Aviation Plant No. 1 in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union. It was commissioned to launch Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soviet human spaceflight program, first with 8 uncrewed test flights, followed by the first 19 crewed launches.
Propulsion
Boosters
4×RD-107A838 kN
RP-1 / LOX · gas-generator
NPO Energomash / KuznetsovIsp 320s (vac)since 2004four boosters
First stage
RD-108A792 kN
RP-1 / LOX · gas-generator
NPO Energomash / KuznetsovIsp 315s (vac)since 2001core
Third stage
RD-0110298 kN
RP-1 / LOX · gas-generator
KBKhAIsp 326s (vac)since 1967Blok I
Payloads it launched
8 loaded