Rocket family
Kosmos
Soviet Union and Russia1961 to 2010Kosmos is a family of light Soviet launchers from the Yangel design bureau in Dnipropetrovsk, built from the R-12 and R-14 missiles. Its most successful version, the Kosmos-3M, flies for more than four decades from Plesetsk and Kapustin Yar, placing hundreds of small military navigation, communications and calibration satellites, and later foreign small satellites, in low orbit.
- Launches
- 625
- Success rate
- 93%
- 42 failures · 3 partial
- First flight
- 1961
- Kosmos-2I
- Last flight
- 2010
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Rocket types
- 6
Launches per year
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| Year | Launches |
|---|---|
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 8 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1964 | 10 |
| 1965 | 16 |
| 1966 | 9 |
| 1967 | 19 |
| 1968 | 25 |
| 1969 | 22 |
| 1970 | 32 |
| 1971 | 34 |
| 1972 | 27 |
| 1973 | 26 |
| 1974 | 24 |
| 1975 | 25 |
| 1976 | 32 |
| 1977 | 31 |
| 1978 | 21 |
| 1979 | 18 |
| 1980 | 16 |
| 1981 | 18 |
| 1982 | 25 |
| 1983 | 23 |
| 1984 | 18 |
| 1985 | 12 |
| 1986 | 15 |
| 1987 | 13 |
| 1988 | 7 |
| 1989 | 9 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 12 |
| 1992 | 7 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 5 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 4 |
| 1997 | 2 |
| 1998 | 2 |
| 1999 | 2 |
| 2000 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 4 |
| 2003 | 3 |
| 2004 | 2 |
| 2005 | 3 |
| 2006 | 1 |
| 2007 | 3 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2009 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 |
Kosmos rockets
| Rocket | Flown | Launches | Success rate | Height | Payload to LEO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kosmos-2I | 1961 to 1967 | 38 | 68% | 31 m | 300 kg |
| Kosmos 65S3 | 1964 to 1965 | 8 | 88% | 26.3 m | 1,400 kg |
| Kosmos 11K63 | 1965 to 1977 | 126 | 94% | 31 m | 300 kg |
| Kosmos 11K65 | 1966 to 1968 | 4 | 50% | 32.4 m | 1,400 kg |
| Kosmos-3M (11K65M) | 1967 to 2010 | 445 | 95% | 32.4 m | 1,400 kg |
| K65M-RB | 1982 to 1984 | 4 | 100% | 32.4 m | 1,000 kg |