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Soyuz 11A511M

Retired

Energia

The Soyuz was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket designed in the 1960s by OKB-1 and manufactured by State Aviation Plant No. 1 in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union. It was commissioned to launch Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soviet human spaceflight program, first with 8 uncrewed test flights, followed by the first 19 crewed launches.

Key figures

Total launches
8
Successes
8
Failures
0
Success rate
100.0 %
Success streak
8
Maiden flight
Dec 27, 1971
Reusable
No
Shortest launch interval ⓘ
127d 21h
Planned launches
0
Soyuz family total
833 launches · 809 successes · 24 failures (6 variants)

🧐 Data check

Automatic plausibility checks — anomalies are surfaced transparently here:

  • ℹ️The figures above apply only to the “Soyuz 11A511M” variant. The Launch Library counts each variant separately — the Soyuz family totals 833 launches across 6 variants.

Technology

Length
50 m
Diameter
2.95 m
Launch mass
300 t
Liftoff thrust
4,054 kN
Stages
2
LEO (low Earth orbit)
6,600 kg

Engines & propellant

Boosters4× RD-107AKerosin / Flüssigsauerstoff
1st stage1× RD-108A (Zentralblock)Kerosin / Flüssigsauerstoff
2nd stageRD-0110 / RD-0124Kerosin / Flüssigsauerstoff
Kick stageFregat (optional)UDMH / Stickstofftetroxid

Engine and propellant data from curated sources: Wikipedia — Sojus (Rakete)

Launches per year

of which in our database: 8

1971: 1 Successes119711972: 2 Successes219721973: 2 Successes219731974: 2 Successes219741976: 1 Successes11976
Successes Failures Other/planned

History & events

  1. Dec 27, 1971🚀 Maiden flightZenit-4MT 1View launch

Sources