Strela-3 119 to 124
Tsiklon-3
Strategic Rocket Forces
Mission
Strela-3 119 to 124
Type: Government/Top Secret
Second generation store-dump military communications satellites
Location
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Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
1659 rockets have launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation.
Rocket
Tsiklon-3 – Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
Family: Tsiklon
Length: 39.27 m
Diameter: 3 m
Launch Mass: 189 T
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 4100 kg
The Tsiklon-3 was manufactured by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau with the first launch on 1977-06-24. Tsiklon-3 has 115 successful launches and 7 failed launches with a total of 122 launches. The Tsyklon-3 was a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian orbital carrier rocket. A derivative of the R-36 ICBM, and a member of the Tsyklon family, it made its maiden flight on 24 June 1977, and was retired on 30 January 2009.
Agency
Strategic Rocket Forces
Type: Government
Abbreviation: RVSN RF
Founded: 1959
Country: RUS
The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation are a separate-troops branch of the Russian Armed Forces that control Russia’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
