Kosmos (rocket family)

The Kosmos (also spelled Cosmos, Russian: Ко́смос) rockets were a series of Soviet and subsequently Russian rockets, derived from the R-12 and R-14 missiles,^[1]^[2] the best known of which is the Kosmos-3M, which has made over 440 launches. The Kosmos family contained 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	27 April 2010
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. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
↑ Wade, Mark. "Kosmos 3". Encyclopedia Astronautica. 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 Minotaur Saturn Scout Ares Titan Thor

Other nations	Ariane H-II / H-IIA / H-IIB Long March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 Kuaizhou KZ-11 Naga-1 Mu GSLV (rocket family) GSLV LVM

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.

Orbital launch systems

Current	Angara 1.2 A5 Antares Ariane 5 Atlas V Delta II IV Dnepr-1 Epsilon Falcon 9 full thrust GSLV GSLV Mk III H-IIA H-IIB Kuaizhou Long March 2C 2D 2F 3A 3B 3C 4B 4C 6 11 Minotaur I IV V C Pegasus Proton-M PSLV Rokot Safir Shavit Strela Soyuz U FG 2 2-1v SPARK Unha Vega VLS-1 Zenit 2M 3SL 3SLB 3F

Planned	Angara A3 A5P A5V A7 Ariane 6 Athena Ic IIc III Ausroc IV Falcon Heavy Falcon 9-R FT-1 H3 Haas KZ-11 Long March 5 7 8 9 LauncherOne Mayak Naga-1 Naro-2 OREL RPS (420, 550) Simorgh SLS Southern Cross Soyuz-5 Tronador Tsyklon-4 ULV VLM Vulcan

Retired	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 Conestoga Delta A B C D E G J L M N 0100 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 III Diamant Energia Europa Falcon 1 Falcon 9 v1.0 v1.1 Feng Bao 1 H-I H-II Juno I Juno II Kaituozhe-1 Kosmos 1 2I 3 3M Lambda 4S Long March 1 2A 2E 3 4A Mu 4S 3C 3H 3S 3SII V N1 N-I N-II Naro-1 Paektusan Pilot Proton UR-500 K R-7 Luna Molniya M L Polyot Soyuz L M U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M R-29 Shtil' Volna Saturn I IB V INT-21 Scout SLV Space Shuttle Sparta Start-1 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 Zenit-2

Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian expendable launch vehicles

Active	Dnepr R-7 Soyuz U FG 2 2-1v UR Proton-M Rokot Strela Zenit 2 2M Zenit-3SL Zenit-3SLB

In development	Angara 1.1 1.2 A3 A5 A7 Tsyklon-4 Soyuz-5 Soyuz-5.1 Soyuz-5 (base version) Soyuz-5.2 Mayak Mayak-12 Mayak-22 Mayak-23 Mayak-43 Mayak-43-2Т

Former	Energia Kosmos 1 2I 3 3M N1 Proton UR-500 Proton-K R-7 Luna Molniya M L Polyot Soyuz L M U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M R-29 Shtil' Volna Rus-M Start-1 Tsyklon 2 3 Zenit-2

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Kosmos (rocket family)

Variants

See also

References