The N1 was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit, acting as the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V. It was designed with manned extra-orbital travel in mind. Development work started on the N1 in 1959. Its first stage is the most powerful rocket stage ever built. (checked 2019)
Specifications
- Thrust
- 45,400 kN
- Height
- 105 m
- Diameter
- 17 m
- Launch mass
- 2,750 t
- Stages
- 5
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 95,000 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
4
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
0%
0 of 4
Current success streak
0
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- N1 | Soyuz 7K-LOK No.2 — Failure
- N1 | Soyuz 7K-LOK No.1 — Failure
- N1 | Zond-M 2 — Failure
- N1 | Zond-M 1 — Failure