Operator file · RU-1013
Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau is a commercial launch operator based in Russia, founded in 1947. It has flown 3 launches under its own name. 2 succeeded and 1 failed, a success rate of 66.7%. It has nothing on the schedule we can see right now.
Flight record
Launch statistics
These are launches under Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau’s own name in The Space Devs’ Launch Library. They don’t count missions or payloads. A spacecraft that flew on someone else’s rocket counts for the operator that flew it.
Operator or customer
An operator owns the rocket and runs the count, and the launch schedule filters by operator. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. Some organisations are both. Below, Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau is counted in whichever role the current schedule gives it.
Manifest role
No scheduled flight names Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau with someone else flying it.
How we count it: a scheduled launch counts as a customer flight when this organisation’s name or abbreviation is in the launch name, mission name or programme, and someone else is flying it. We don’t search mission descriptions, and we only see the schedule as far as it goes, which is 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. So treat both counts as a minimum.
About Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau
The JSC Makeyev Design Bureau is a Russian missile design company located in Miass, Russia. Established in December 1947 as SKB-385, the company is the main designer of submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) in Russia. The organization was named in honor of Victor Makeyev. Its full official name is State Rocket Center «Academician V.P. Makeev Design Bureau». In 1965, SKB-385 was redesignated the Design Bureau of Machine-Building (KBM) under the Ministry of General Machine-Building.
Upcoming launches
Manifest
Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau has nothing on the schedule we can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z. Its missions show up here once a launch date is published.
All upcoming launchesThe label on each flight says how exact its launch time is. If the date is only known to the month, you’ll see the month and no countdown. A weather go-probability only shows when Launch Library has one for that flight. EveryLaunch doesn’t work it out.
Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau in the archive
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Common questions
- How many launches has Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau flown?
- Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau has flown 3 launches under its own name. 2 succeeded and 1 failed. That counts launches it flew itself, not missions or payloads it contributed to.
- What is Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau's success rate?
- 66.7%. That's 2 successful flights out of 3 attempts. Its last 1 launches in a row have succeeded.
- When is Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau's next launch?
- Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau has nothing on the schedule EveryLaunch can see, which runs to 2039-12-31 00:00:00Z.
- Does Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau fly its own rockets, or buy launches from another operator?
- Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau has flown 3 launches under its own name. It isn't the operator on any scheduled flight we can see. An operator owns the rocket and runs the count. A customer pays for the mission, supplies the payload and buys the ride. The operator filter on the launch schedule only lists operators, so a well-known agency can own a mission and still not show up there.
- Where is Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau based?
- Russia. Launch Library lists it as a commercial operator, founded in 1947.
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