Cosmos-3M

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This article contains information regarding a rocket that is scheduled to launch in the next 10 days.

Details may change as the countdown and ascent progress. Launch details: COSMOS International will use a Kosmos-3M to launch several communications satellites for Orbcomm. Launch will occur from LC-107 at Kapustin Yar. Ufa State Aviation Technical University's UGATUSAT satellite may also be launched.

Launch is scheduled for 19 June 2008. See 2008 in spaceflight and the Spaceflight Portal for further details.

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Fact sheet
Kosmos-3M (R-14 11K65M)
Drawing of the Kosmos-3M
Function	Orbital carrier rocket
Manufacturer	Yuzhnoye/NPO Polyot
Country of origin	Soviet Union (Russia)
Size
Height	32.4 m (106.2 ft)
Diameter	2.4 m (7.8 ft)
Mass	109,000 kg (240,000 lb)
Stages	2
Capacity
Payload to LEO	1,500 kg (3,300 lb)
Payload to SSO	775 kg (1,708 lb)
Launch History
Status	Active
Launch sites	LC-132, Plesetsk; Kapustin Yar
Total launches	442
Successes	422
Failures	20
Maiden flight	15 May 1967
First Stage - R-14U
Engines	1 RD-216
Thrust	1,486 kN (334,066 lb_f)
Specific impulse	291 sec
Burn time	170 seconds
Fuel	IRFNA/UDMH
Second Stage
Engines	1 RD-219
Thrust	883 kN (198,506 lb_f)
Specific impulse	293 sec
Burn time	1620 seconds
Fuel	IRFNA/UDMH

The Cosmos-3M (11K65M) (Russian: Космос-3М) is a Russian space launch vehicle. It is a liquid-fueled two-stage rocket, first launched in 1967 and with over 410 successful launches to its name. The Cosmos 3M uses nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer to lift roughly 1400 kg of payload into orbit. It differed from the earlier Cosmos 3 in its finer control of the second-stage burn, allowing operators to tune the thrust and even channel it through nozzles that helped orient the rocket for the launching of multiple satellites at one time. PO Polyot has manufactured these launch vehicles in the Russian town of Omsk for decades, though the latest digitally controlled rockets are now officially referred to as "Cosmos 3MU."

[edit] Launches

On June 26, 1973 , the explosion of a Cosmos 3M at Plesetsk Cosmodrome killed 9 people.^[1] In 1976, the explosion of a Cosmos 3M on its launchpad killed nine engineers.^{[citation needed]} More recently, on November 21, 2000, a Cosmos 3M launcher failed to place the QuickBird 1 satellite into orbit due to a failure of its second stage. The rocket and satellite reentered the atmosphere over Uruguay, and an inquest into the accident was inconclusive.

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Satellite	Date	Carrier	Site
SAR-Lupe-2	2 July 2007	Kosmos-3M	Plesetsk
Kosmos-2429	11 September 2007	Kosmos-3M	Plesetsk
SAR-Lupe 4	27 March 2008	Kosmos-3M	Plesetsk

[edit] References

^ It happened today... on June 26th. AvioNews.

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