Flight ( GUKOS index - 11A59 ) is a Soviet two -stage light class launch vehicle from the R-7 family . The Polet launch vehicle was developed and manufactured in the Kuibyshev branch No. 3 of OKB-1 (now TsSKB-Progress ) under the leadership of Dmitry Ilyich Kozlov and Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov [2] .
| RN 11A59 "Flight" | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| A country |  the USSR |
| Family | R-7A |
| Index | 11A59 |
| Appointment | booster |
| Developer | OKB-1 , TsSKB-Progress |
| Manufacturer | TsSKB-Progress |
| Main characteristics | |
| Number of steps | 2 |
| Length (with GP) | 30 m [1] |
| Diameter | 2.99 m [1] |
| Starting weight | 277 t [1] |
| Cast weight | 1.95 t |
| Type of fuel | T1 + LOX |
| Payload | I-2V |
| Launch history | |
| condition | operation completed |
| Launch locations | Baikonur , site No. 31/6 |
| Number of starts | 2 |
| • successful | 2 |
| First start | November 1, 1963 [1] |
| Last run | April 12, 1964 [1] |
Rocket "Flight" is a modification of the launch vehicle " R-7A " and was intended for launching into a circular orbit of special maneuvering satellites - “ Flight-1 ” and “ Flight-2 ”, developed by OKB-52 under the leadership of Vladimir Nikolayevich Chelomey [2] [1] .
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Creation History
The two-stage PH 11A59 was developed pursuant to Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 258-110 of March 16, 1961, by branch No. 3 of OKB-1 (now TsSKB-Progress ) on the basis of the R- 7A ”(GUKOS index - 8K74).
Test work on the development of the processes of separation of the IP object (the working name of the I-2V devices) from the second stage of the 11A59 launch vehicle was carried out at the flight test and development base in Zhukovsky [3] .
Design Features
The 11A59 launch vehicle was developed on the basis of the R-7A by creating a fundamentally new design and type of warhead. A fundamental technical innovation was the fact of using a detonation cord around the body to discharge the head part [3] .
List of All Launches of the Launch Vehicle Launch
11A59 "Flight" launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in 1963 and 1964 the first Soviet maneuvering satellites Polet-1 and Polet-2 , such as I-2B , were launched at OKB-52 under the leadership of V. N. Chelomei.
| The list of launches of the launch vehicle "Flight" [4] | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launch Number | Date ( UTC ) | Payload | QC type | NSSDC ID | SCD | Launch complex | Result | |||
| one | November 1, 1963 | Flight 1 | " I-1V " No. 1 | 1963-043A | 00683 | Baikonur 31/6 | Success | |||
| 2 | April 12, 1964 | Flight 2 | I-1V No. 2 | 1964-019A | 00784 | Baikonur 31/6 | Success | |||
See also
- Union (booster)
- R-7 (family of launch vehicles)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 Encyclopedia Astronautica .
- ↑ 1 2 Samara Steps of the Seven, 2011 , p. 68.
- ↑ 1 2 Polyachenko V. A. “At Sea and in Space: Memories”, 2008 , p. 88.
- ↑ Gunter's space page .
Literature
- Kirilin A.N. , Akhmetov R.N. , Tyulevin S.V. , Tkachenko S.I. Samara steps "Sevens" . - Samara : Agni, 2011 .-- 256 p. - 2000 copies. - ISBN 978-5-89850-163-1 .
- Kobelev V.N. , Milovanov A.G. Launch vehicles: Textbook. - M .: FSBEI HPE "MATI" , 1993. - 165 p. - ISBN 5-230-21066-4 .
- Polyachenko V. A. At sea and in space: Memoirs . - SPb. : “MORSAR AV”, 2008. - 192 p. + 32 s. paste with. - 1,500 copies - ISBN 5-93599-001-8 .
- M.A. Pervov. The history of the development of domestic rocket science . - M .: Publishing House "Capital Encyclopedia", 2014. - 920 p. - 1200 copies. - ISBN 978-5-903989-22-5 .
Links
- Sputnik 11A59 Encyclopedia Astronautica. Date of treatment May 3, 2013. Archived on September 3, 2013.
- R-7 Family Gunter's space page. Date of treatment May 3, 2013. Archived on September 3, 2013.