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Description: Vostok rocket. This is a two-and-a-half-stage derivative of the one-and-ahalf-stage rocket which launched Sputnik 1 (1957). Its original ancestor was the SS-6 “Sapwood” ICBM. It served as the basis for the Soyuz launcher (figure 1-7), in service today. Weight of payload launched to 200-km, 51° circular orbit is 4730 kg.
Title: Vostok rocket drawing
Credit: http://ston.jsc.nasa.gov/collections/TRS/_techrep/RP1357.pdf
Author: NASA
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