Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 41

Site 41
The memorial to the fallen of 41 test pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome
Map
Launch siteBaikonur Cosmodrome
OperatorRVSN
Total launches134
Launch pad(s)3
Site 41/3 launch history
StatusDemolished
Launches31
First launchOctober 24, 1960
Last launchDecember 12, 1967
Associated
rockets
R-16
Site 41/4 launch history
StatusDemolished
Launches81
First launchFebruary 2, 1961
Last launchDecember 27, 1967
Associated
rockets
R-16
Site 41/15 launch history
StatusDemolished
Launches22
First launchMay 25, 1963
R-16U
Last launchAugust 27, 1968
Kosmos 3 / Kosmos 236
Associated
rockets
R-16
Kosmos 3

Site 41 was a complex of three launch pads at the Baikonur Cosmodrome originally built for flight testing of Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) using storable propellant. The need to develop such missiles was determined by low-tactical-technical and operational characteristics of the first Soviet ICBM R-7 created by the OKB-1 under the guidance of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. May 13, 1959 by a special decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the CM of the design Bureau «Yuzhnoye» (Chief designer-Mikhail K. Yangel) assigned to develop an Intercontinental ballistic missile on storable components of propellant, which has received designation R-16 and index – 8К64 . Together with 41 platform built platform No. 42 – technical and No. 43 – for residing of serving military personnel and representatives of the industry.