Energiya

In-active

Energia (OKB-1)

May 15, 1987

Description

Energia (Russian: Энергия, Energiya, "Energy") (GRAU 11K25) was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift partially recoverable launch system for a variety of payloads including the Buran spacecraft.

Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    97.0 m
  • Diameter
    17.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    7.75 m
  • Launch Mass
    2524.0 T
  • Thrust
    35129.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Energiya
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Energiya
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    88000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
    22000.0 kg
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Energia

Government
None
OKB-1 1946

None

Energiya | Polyus

Energia | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 15, 1987, 5:30 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Satellite used to test technologies for the Skif-D SDI program

Low Earth Orbit
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Long March 2D
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Falcon 9
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1 day, 18 hours ago
Fram2
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Falcon 9
Success
2 days ago
Starlink Group 6-80
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Spectrum
Failure
3 days, 9 hours ago
Maiden Flight
Orbital Launch Pad - Andøya Spaceport

First flight of the Isar Spectrum launch vehicle.


Long March 7A
Success
4 days, 4 hours ago
TJSW-16
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Chinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.