Vehicle file · LV-455
Zenit-2
Yuzhnoye Design Bureau · Zenith · RETIRED
Zenit-2 is an expendable orbital launch vehicle built by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. It stands 57.0 m tall, lifts 13,740 kg to low Earth orbit, first flew on 13 April 1985. It has flown 35 times with 29 successes, a success rate of 82.9%. It has no flight on the public manifest at the moment.
Specification
Vehicle spec sheet
PUBLISHED
Height57.0 m
Diameter3.9 m
Payload to LEO13,740 kg
Payload to GTONOT PUBLISHED
Maiden flight13 April 1985
ReusableNo — expendable
Launch costNOT PUBLISHED
StatusRetired
Flight record
Reliability
ON RECORD
Total flights35
Successful29
Failed6
Success rate82.9%
Landing attempts0
Landing successN/A
Scheduled0
Variant2
About Zenit-2
Zenit is a family of space launch vehicles designed by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnipro, Ukraine, which was then part of the Soviet Union.
Upcoming flights
Manifest
EMPTY
No Zenit-2 flight is filed in the current manifest window. Missions appear here the moment a launch date is published.
All upcoming launchesCommon questions
- How many times has Zenit-2 flown?
- Zenit-2 has flown 35 orbital missions, with 29 successes and 6 failures.
- What is Zenit-2's success rate?
- Zenit-2 has a success rate of 82.9%, from 29 successful flights out of 35 attempts.
- When is the next Zenit-2 launch?
- Zenit-2 has no flight on the public manifest at the moment. Scheduled missions appear here as soon as a launch date is filed.
- How much can Zenit-2 lift to orbit?
- Zenit-2 is rated for 13,740 kg to low Earth orbit. These are the operator's published maximums and assume an expendable or fully optimised configuration.
- Is Zenit-2 reusable?
- No. Zenit-2 is expendable: every stage is discarded during flight and nothing is recovered for reflight.