📊 Analysis

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Rocket

Organization

Vostok 8A92M

Retired

RKK Energiya

Vostok was a family of rockets derived from the Soviet R-7 Semyorka ICBM and was designed for the human spaceflight programme.

Total launches

Successes

Failures

Success rate

98.9 %

Success streak

Maiden flight

Aug 28, 1964

Reusable

Shortest launch interval ⓘ

4d 6h

Planned launches

Vostok family total

150 launches · 138 successes · 12 failures (4 variants)

Automatic plausibility checks — anomalies are surfaced transparently here:

ℹ️The figures above apply only to the “Vostok 8A92M” variant. The Launch Library counts each variant separately — the Vostok family totals 150 launches across 4 variants.

Length

30.84 m

Diameter

2.99 m

Launch mass

282 t

Liftoff thrust

3,996 kN

Stages

LEO (low Earth orbit)

3,800 kg

of which in our database: 93

Successes Failures Other/planned