Tsiklon-2 (Yuzhnoye Design Bureau)
Photo Credit: Ukrainian Space Agency
The Tsiklon-2, manufactured by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau established in 1951, undertook its inaugural launch on 08/06/1969, is non-reusable and is inactive.
Tsiklon-2 has 103 successful launches and 2 failed attempts, with a cumulative tally of 105 launches, currently with 0 pending launches in the pipeline.
The Tsyklon-2 (cyclone-2), also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M, GRAU index 11K69, was a Ukrainian, previously Soviet orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s.
- Length: 39.7 m
- Diameter: 3 m
- Launch Mass: 182 T
- LEO Capacity: 2820 kg
- Launch Cost: $12,000,000
Manufacturer
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau (OKB-586)
Director: Alexander Degtyarev
Yuzhnoye Design Office, located in Dnipro, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) established by Mikhail Yangel in 1951. The Zenit launch vehicle currently launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome but also used to launch from an ocean platform, Odyssey.
