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Tsiklon · 2

Tsiklon-2

The Tsyklon-2 (cyclone-2), also known as Tsiklon-2 and Tsyklon-M, GRAU index 11K69, was a Ukrainian, previously Soviet orbital carrier rocket used from the 1960s to the late 2000s.

Height

39.7 m

Diameter

3 m

LEO capacity

2,820 kg

Manufacturer

Yuzhnoye Design Bureau

Total launches

105

Successful

103

Pending

0

Successful landings

0

Flight system

Built to move mass beyond the atmosphere.

Yuzhnoye Design Office, located in Dnipro, Ukraine, is a designer of satellites and rockets, and formerly of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) established by Mikhail Yangel in 1951. The Zenit launch vehicle currently launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome but also used to launch from an ocean platform, Odyssey.