- Family: Tsiklon
- Length: 39.7 m
- Diameter: 3 m
- Launch Mass: 182 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 3000 kg
The Tsiklon-2A was manufactured by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau with the first launch on 1967-10-27. Tsiklon-2A has 7 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 8 launches. The Tsyklon was a Soviet-designed expendable launch system, primarily used to put Cosmos satellites into low Earth orbit. It is based on the R-36 intercontinental ballistic missile designed by Mikhail Yangel and made eight launches, with seven successes and one failure. All of its launches were conducted from LC-90 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It is sometimes designated Tsyklon-2A, not to be confused with the later Tsyklon-2 rocket. It was introduced in 1967 and was derived from the R-36 ICBM (NATO designation SS-9 Scarp). It was retired in 1969.
Manufacturer
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. Yuzhnoye Design Bureau is a Commercial UKR entity that was founded in 1951 and is administered by Director: Alexander Degtyarev.
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau has 0 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 0 launches.
