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Kosmos 11K63

Strategic Rocket Forces · Kosmos · RETIRED

Kosmos 11K63 is an expendable launch vehicle built by Strategic Rocket Forces. It stands 31.0 m tall, lifts 300 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 24 May 1966. It has flown 126 times with 118 successes, a success rate of 93.7%.

Specification

Vehicle spec sheet

ON FILE
Height31.0 m
Diameter1.6 m
Payload to LEO300 kg
Payload to GTONOT ON FILE
Maiden flight24 May 1966
ReusableNo, expendable
Launch costNOT ON FILE
StatusRETIRED

As listed by Launch Library 2. The cost is Launch Library’s figure, not a quoted price. Figures for rockets outside the sixty most-flown were last read on 2026-11-05.

Flight record

Reliability

ON RECORD
Total flights126
Successful118
Failed8
Success rate93.7%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant11K63

About Kosmos 11K63

The Kosmos rockets were a series of Soviet and subsequently Russian rockets, derived from the R-12 and R-14 missiles.

Upcoming flights

Manifest

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All upcoming launches

From NASA's public image library and Wikimedia Commons. Each photo shows the credit its licence asks for and links back to where it came from.

Wirtschaftserfolge-Kosmos05
Wirtschaftserfolge-Kosmos05Paebi · CC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia Commons ↗
Kosmos rocket
Kosmos rocketDmitry Shipulja (Дмитрий Шипуля) · public domainWikimedia Commons ↗

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Common questions

How many times has Kosmos 11K63 flown?
126 times, with 118 successes and 8 failures.
What is Kosmos 11K63's success rate?
93.7%. That's 118 successful flights out of 126 attempts.
How much can Kosmos 11K63 lift to orbit?
Launch Library 2 lists Kosmos 11K63 at 300 kg to low Earth orbit.
Is Kosmos 11K63 reusable?
No. Launch Library 2 lists Kosmos 11K63 as expendable, so no stage is recovered to fly again.