Rockets / Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
R-36O 8K69
R-36O 8K69 · Yuzhnoye Design Bureau · retired
Total launches
21
all time
Success rate
9.5%
19 of 21
Failed
2
all time
Pending
0
0 on the board
About this vehicle
The R-36O was the only orbiting military nuclear weapon ever deployed, although in order to remain legal under international treaties it was a 'fractional orbital' weapon. Although American infrared early warning satellites invalidated the 'surprise attack' component of the concept, 18 missiles were operational from 1969 to 1983.
Source: Launch Library 2 record #351 · Wikipedia
Specifications
- Manufacturer
- Yuzhnoye Design Bureau
- Status
- Retired / inactive
- Reusable
- No
- Maiden flight
- 1965-07-28
- Height
- 32.6 m
- Diameter
- 3 m
- Liftoff mass
- 182 t
- Thrust
- —
- Stages
- 2
- Payload to LEO
- —
- Payload to GTO
- —
- Launch cost
- —
Next flights on this rocket
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Where it flies from
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