Soyuz/Vostok

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Vostok-2 (11A510)
FunctionSmall-lift launch vehicle
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Size
Stages4
Capacity
Payload to LEO
Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 555: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).4,500 kg (9,900 lb)
Associated rockets
FamilyR-7
Launch history
StatusRetired
Launch sitesBaikonur, Site 31/6
Total launches2
Success(es)2
First flight27 December 1965
Last flight20 July 1966
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Boosters (First stage) – Block B, V, G & D[a]
No. boosters4
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Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 555: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).994.3 kN (223,500 lbf)
Total thrust3,977.2 kN (894,100 lbf)
Specific impulse315 s (3.09 km/s)
Burn time118 seconds
PropellantLOX / RP-1
Second stage (core) – Block A
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Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 555: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).977.7 kN (219,800 lbf)
Specific impulse315 s (3.09 km/s)
Burn time292 seconds
PropellantLOX / RP-1
Third stage
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Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 555: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).54.5 kN (12,300 lbf)
Specific impulse365 s (3.58 km/s)
Burn time365 seconds
PropellantLOX / RP-1
Fourth stage – Unknown

The Soyuz/Vostok (GRAU index: 11A510) was an interim expendable carrier rocket used by the Soviet Union in 1965 and 1966. Two were launched with prototype US-A satellites.[1]

The Soyuz/Vostok was launched from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It consisted of the boosters (first stage) and second stage (core) from a Soyuz rocket combined with the third stage of the Vostok-2, and an unknown fourth stage.[1] Along with the Voskhod-derived Polyot, it was built as an interim between the cancellation of the UR-200 development programme, and the introduction of the Tsyklon-2, which took over US-A launches once it entered service.

Notes

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  1. ^ This is a transliteration of the second through fifth letters of the Cyrillic alphabet (Б, В, Г, Д). A sense-for-sense translation would correspond to the second through fifth letters of the Latin alphabet, 'Block B, C, D & E'.

References

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