Volna

Volna [ vɔlna ] (Russian Волна for wave ) is the civilian name of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile R- 29 and SS-N -18, since civil with her suborbital flights and satellite launches are carried out. The missile is launched from a submerged submarine. The two lower stages of the rocket are operated with dinitrogen tetroxide and UDMH ( unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine ), the third stage, which is only for orbital missions today, with solid fuel. From an equatorial starting position of the rocket can bring mathematically up to 115 kg into low Earth orbit. Because of the necessary ground control after launch, the missile could be launched only in the Barents Sea, but so far, which reduces the payload of about 50 kg in orbit.

Your first orbital launch had the Volna on 21 June 2005 with the Cosmos 1 satellite. After the reports of the Russian Navy, the first-stage engine shut after 83 seconds of the flight prematurely, after the turbo pump of the main engine failed. According to other reports of the Planetary Society, the satellite reached an unplanned, low orbit. However, these reports could not be confirmed at first and later turned out as misinterpretations, so that is now considered a failure of the first stage of the rocket as a cause of error.

The rocket was built by the State Rocket Center Makejev.

Start list

This is a complete start list of the Volna rocket. State of the list: May 5, 2006

¹ Gross Weight = ( Satellite Adapter, enclosure etc. )

Angara | Dnepr | Energia | Cosmos | Molniya | N -1 | Proton | R-7 | Rockot | Schtil | Soyuz | Start | Strela | Volna | Voskhod | Vostok | Zenith | cyclone

Rocket stages used: Blok -D | Bris | Fregat | Ikar

( See also: List of types of rockets )

• Missile type ( Space )
• Soviet and Russian space