Launch Vehicle

Soyuz-U2

retired

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Specifications

Status: retired
Height: 34.54 m
Diameter: 2.95 m
Mass: 298,000 kg
Stages: 2
Thrust: 4,144 kN
Payload to LEO: 7,050 kg
First flight: 1982-12-23
Total launches: 71
Success / Fail: 71 / 0

The Soyuz-U2 was a Soviet, later Russian, carrier rocket. It was derived from the Soyuz-U, and a member of the R-7 family of rockets. It featured increased performance compared with the baseline Soyuz-U, due to the use of syntin propellant, as opposed to RP-1 paraffin, used on the Soyuz-U.

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

60 loaded