"Rockot"

he engine system consists of main engine plus four 11D458, plus twelve 17D58E vernier thrusters. Propellant load 3300 kg N2O4 + 1665 kg UDMH. Main engine: Capable of 8 restarts. Total deliverable impulse 2,000,000 kgfs. Minimum impulse 2500 kgs. Maximum burn time 1000 seconds; minimum time 1 second. Time between burns between 15 seconds and 5 hours. Vernier engines: 4 x 40 kgf. Specific impulse 275 sec. Total summary impulse 14,112 kgs. Minimum impulse 4 kgs. Orientation engines: 12 x 1.3 kgf. Specific impulse 270 sec. Minimum impulse 0.068 kgs. "Breeze-KM" differs from "Breeze-K" in having 'compact' components, special payload truss for "Globalstar" dispenser. The truss is 1.8 m in diameter and has a volume of 8.8 m3. Launch operations for "Rockot" vehicles are conducted by the Russian Strategic Missile Forces. The booster is shipped by rail directly to the "MIK" integration facility. The payload is also processed at the MIK. The payload can be shipped by rail or aircraft. Since the 2000 m runway at Plesetsk cannot accommodate large aircraft, payloads shipped by air must be transferred to smaller aircraft (such as the An-12) in Moscow or Archangel, then shipped by road or rail from the Plesetsk airport to the MIK. The MIK includes areas for testing the spacecraft. A separate hazardous processing facility 35 km away is used for fueling the "Breeze" stage, and can optionally support fueling of bipropellant spacecraft.      Approximately   two weeks each are required for spacecraft operations and booster preparation, and most tasks can be conducted in

Two different nuclear  warhead (1) for UR-100K (2)  "Breeze" booster for "Rockot" space launcher (3) and upper stage for space launcher "Strela" (4).

parallel. Combined launch vehicle and payload operations take approximately one week. Weeks each are required for spacecraft operations and booster preparation, and most tasks can be conducted in parallel. Combined launch vehicle and payload operations take approximately one week.


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