Tsyklon-3 on display in downtown Dnipro | |
Function | Carrier rocket |
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Manufacturer | Yuzhmash |
Country of origin | Soviet Union (Ukraine) |
Size | |
Height | 39.27 m (128.8 ft) |
Diameter | 3 m (9.8 ft) |
Mass | 189,000 kg (417,000 lb) |
Stages | 3 |
Capacity | |
Payload to low Earth orbit | |
Mass | 4,100 kg (9,000 lb) |
Associated rockets | |
Family | R-36, Tsyklon |
Derivative work | Tsyklon-4, Cyclone-4M |
Comparable | Delta II |
Launch history | |
Status | Retired[1] |
Launch sites | Plesetsk Cosmodrome LC-32 |
Total launches | 122 |
Success(es) | 114 |
Failure(s) | 8 |
First flight | 24 June 1977 |
Last flight | 30 January 2009[1] |
Type of passengers/cargo | Tselina Meteor Okean Geo-IK Strela |
First stage – 11K69 | |
Powered by | 1 RD-261 module (3 RD-250PM engines) |
Maximum thrust | 3,032 kN (682,000 lbf) |
Specific impulse | 301 sec |
Burn time | 120 seconds |
Propellant | N2O4 / UDMH |
Second stage – 11S692 | |
Powered by | 1 RD-262 |
Maximum thrust | 941 kN (212,000 lbf) |
Specific impulse | 318 sec |
Burn time | 160 seconds |
Propellant | N2O4 / UDMH |
Third stage – 11S693 | |
Powered by | 1 RD-861 |
Maximum thrust | 78.7 kN (17,700 lbf) |
Specific impulse | 317 sec |
Burn time | 125 seconds |
Propellant | N2O4 / UDMH |
The Tsyklon-3, also known as Tsiklon-3 and Cyclone-3 (known as SL-14 by the United States DoD), GRAU index 11K68, was a Soviet, and subsequently Ukrainian orbital carrier rocket. Tsyklon 3 rocket body debris accounts for more than 500 pieces of space debris.[2]