Tsyklon-2

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The Tsyklon-2, also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M, GRAU index 11K69, was a Soviet, later Ukrainian, orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s. The rocket had 106 launches, one suborbital and 105 orbital, with only one failure and 92 consecutive successful launches, from 27 December 1973 with the launch of Kosmos 626 to 25 June 2006 with the final flight of the Tsyklon-2, which makes this launcher the most reliable rocket, having been launched more than 100 times.

1967 — 1999  WikimediaWikidata
Cyclone-2; Cyclone-M; SL-11; Tsyklon-M
payload mass 3200 kilogram, payload mass 2700 kilogram, mass 182 tonne, mass 11.6 tonne, diameter 3 metre, height 35.5 metre, height 39.7 metre, 
expendable launch vehicle, liquid-propellant rocket, two-stage-to-orbit, Pivdenmash, 
Dong Fang Hong 2Ekran1967


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