The Soyuz was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket designed in the 1960s by OKB-1 and manufactured by State Aviation Plant No. 1 in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union. It was commissioned to launch Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soviet human spaceflight program, first with 8 uncrewed test flights, followed by the first 19 crewed launches.
Specifications
- Thrust
- 4,054 kN
- Height
- 50 m
- Diameter
- 2.95 m
- Launch mass
- 300 t
- Stages
- 2
- Launch cost
- —
- LEO capacity
- 5,500 kg
- GTO capacity
- —
- GEO capacity
- —
- SSO capacity
- —
Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
3
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
100%
3 of 3
Current success streak
3
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
- Soyuz 11A511L | T2K 3 — Success
- Soyuz 11A511L | T2K 2 — Success
- Soyuz 11A511L | T2K 1 — Success