Kosmos-2I (

GRAU The Main Missile and Artillery Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (), commonly referred to by its transliterated Russian acronym GRAU (), is a department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. It is subordinate to the ...

Index: 11K63, also known as Cosmos-2I and also known by the designation Kosmos-2) is the designation applied to two

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

carrier rocket A launch vehicle or carrier rocket is a rocket designed to carry a payload (spacecraft or satellites) from the Earth's surface to outer space. Most launch vehicles operate from a launch pad, launch pads, supported by a missile launch contro ...

s, members of the R-12 Kosmos rocket family, which were used to orbit satellites between 1961 and 1977. They were superseded by the R-14 derived

Kosmos-3 The Kosmos-3 ( GRAU Index: 11K65, also known as Cosmos-3) was a Soviet carrier rocket ( Kosmos (rocket family)), derived from the R-14 missile, which was used to orbit satellites between 1966 and 1968. It was quickly replaced by the modernised K ...

and

Kosmos-3M The Kosmos-3M (russian: Космос-3М meaning "''Cosmos''", GRAU index 11K65M) was a Russian space launch vehicle, member of the Kosmos rocket family. It was a liquid-fueled two-stage launch vehicle, first launched in 1967 and with over 420 ...

Launches

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20080516224211/http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/koss63s1.htm * https://web.archive.org/web/20130522015958/http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/kos11k63.htm Space launch vehicles of the Soviet Union {{rocket-stub