📊 Analysis
Statistics & insights on rockets and organizations — technology, history, numbers.
Sputnik 11A59
RetiredEnergia
An early Russian rocket designed by Sergei Korolev in the Soviet Union
Key figures
Total launches
2
Successes
2
Failures
0
Success rate
100.0 %
Success streak
2
Maiden flight
Dec 1, 1963
Reusable
No
Shortest launch interval ⓘ
163d
Planned launches
0
Sputnik family total
6 launches · 5 successes · 1 failures (3 variants)
🧐 Data check
Automatic plausibility checks — anomalies are surfaced transparently here:
- ℹ️The figures above apply only to the “Sputnik 11A59” variant. The Launch Library counts each variant separately — the Sputnik family totals 6 launches across 3 variants.
Technology
Length
30 m
Diameter
2.99 m
Launch mass
277 t
Liftoff thrust
3,999 kN
Stages
1
LEO (low Earth orbit)
1,400 kg
Launches per year
of which in our database: 2
Successes Failures Other/planned
History & events
Sources
- Launch Library 2 (The Space Devs)
- Wikipedia