Kosmos (rocket family)

The Kosmos (also spelled Cosmos, Russian: Ко́смос) rockets are a series of Soviet and subsequently Russian rockets, derived from the R-12 and R-14 missiles,^[1]^[2] the most well known of which is the Kosmos-3M, which has made over 440 launches, and is still in service. The Kosmos family contains a number of rockets, both carrier rockets and sounding rockets, for orbital and sub-orbital spaceflight respectively. The first variant, the Kosmos-2I, first flew on 27 October 1961. Over 700 Kosmos rockets have been launched overall.

Variants

Designation	GRAU index	Purpose	Derived from	Maiden flight	Final flight	Remarks
Kosmos-2I	63S1	Carrier rocket	R-12	27 October 1961	19 December 1967
Kosmos-1	65S3	Carrier rocket	R-14	18 August 1964	28 December 1965
Kosmos-2M	63S1M	Both	R-12
Kosmos-2I	11K63	Carrier rocket	R-12	24 May 1966	18 June 1977
Kosmos-3	11K65	Carrier rocket	R-14	16 November 1966	27 August 1968
Kosmos-3M	11K65M	Carrier rocket	R-14	15 May 1967		Active
Kosmos-3MR	65MR	Sounding rocket	R-14	1 January 1973		Active
Kosmos-3MP	65MP	Sounding rocket	R-14
Kosmos-3MRB	65MRB	Sounding rocket	R-14	5 December 1980	21 June 1988

References

^ Wade, Mark. "Kosmos 2". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/kosmos2.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
^ Wade, Mark. "Kosmos 3". Encyclopedia Astronautica. http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/kosmos3.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-25.

Rocket families

Carrier rockets

Soviet/Russian	Angara Kosmos N1 Proton R-7 (Soyuz Vostok) Tsyklon Zenit

USA	Athena Atlas Delta Falcon Jupiter Minotaur Saturn Scout Shuttle-Derived Titan Thor

Other nations	Ariane H-II / H-IIA / H-IIB Long March 1 2 5 Mu

Sounding rockets

Missiles

Some families contain more than one type of rocket. These are listed by the function for which they are most well known.

Expendable launch systems

Current	Ariane 5 Atlas V Delta II IV Dnepr-1 GSLV H-IIA H-IIB Kaituozhe-1 Kosmos-3M Long March 1D 2C 2D 2F 3A 3B 3C 4B 4C Minotaur I IV Naro-1 Paektusan Pegasus Proton K M PSLV Rokot Safir Shavit Shtil' Start-1 Strela Soyuz U FG 2 Taurus Unha VLS-1 Volna Zenit 2 2M 3SL 3SLB 3F

Planned	Angara Antares Athena Ic IIc GSLV III Haas Long March 5 6 7 Minotaur V RPS-420 Rus-M Soyuz-1 Simorgh TSLV Tsyklon-4 Vega

Previous	Ariane 1 2 3 4 ASLV Athena I II Atlas B D E/F G H I II III LV-3B SLV-3 Able Agena Centaur Black Arrow Caleb Conestoga Delta A B C D E G J L M N 0100 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 III Diamant Energia Europa Falcon 1‡ Feng Bao 1 H-I H-II J-I Juno I Juno II Kosmos 1 2I 3 Lambda 4S Long March 1 2A 2E 3 4A Mu 4S 3C 3H 3S 3SII V) N1 N-I N-II Pilot R-7 Luna Molniya M Polyot Soyuz L M U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M Saturn I IB V INT-21 Scout SLV Sparta Thor Able Ablestar Agena Burner Delta DSV-2U Thorad-Agena Titan II GLV IIIA IIIB IIIC IIID IIIE 34D 23G CT-3 IV Tsyklon 2 3 Vanguard

‡ – Falcon 1 was designed for partial reuse. However, recovery failed on the first three flights and the remaining vehicles were flown expendably.

Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian expendable launch vehicles

Active	Dnepr · Kosmos (3M) · R-29 (Shtil' · Volna) · R-7 (Soyuz (U · FG · 2)) · Start-1 · UR (Proton (K · M) · Rokot · Strela) · Zenit (2)

In development	Angara (1.1 · 1.2 · A3 · A5 · A7) · Rus-M · R-7 (Soyuz-1)

Former	Energia · Kosmos (1 · 2I · 3) · N1 · R-7 (Luna · Molniya (M) · Polyot · Soyuz (L · M · U2) · Soyuz/Vostok · Sputnik · Voskhod · Vostok (L · K · 2 · 2M)) · Tsyklon (2 · 3)

Kosmos (rocket family)

Variants

See also

References