Mayak is a new family of Ukrainian

launch vehicle 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 under development by the

Pivdenne Pivdenne (; ) is a city in Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Pivdenne urban hromada, one of the hromada A hromada ( uk, територіальна громада, lit=territorial community, translit=tery ...

, which would be manufactured by Pivdenmash. The family is built in a modular fashion on the basis of a single line of main engines with thrust of roughly for the first stage (

RD-801 The RD-801 (Russian: ) is a Ukrainian liquid propellant rocket engine burning LOX and Kerosene ( RG-1) in a staged combustion cycle. It has a single combustion chamber that provides thrust vector control by gimbaling of the nozzle in two axis by ...

RD-810 The RD-810 (РД-810) is a Ukrainian liquid propellant rocket engine burning LOX and Kerosene ( RG-1) in a staged combustion cycle. It has a single combustion chamber that provides thrust vector control by gimbaling of the nozzle in two axis by + ...

) and for the upper stage (RD-809K derived from

RD-8 The RD-8 (Russian: and GRAU Index: 11D513) is a Soviet / Ukrainian liquid propellant rocket engine burning LOX and RG-1 (a rocket grade kerosene) in an oxidizer rich staged combustion cycle. It has a four combustion chambers that provide thru ...

). Engines, control systems and ground equipment are largely derived from components of existing rocket families

Zenit Zenit, meaning "zenith", may refer to: Spaceflight and rocketry * Zenit (rocket family), a Soviet family of space launch vehicles * Zenit (satellite), a type of Soviet spy satellite * Zenit sounding rocket, a Swiss rocket Sports * Zenit (sports ...

and

Tsyklon The Tsyklon (Циклон, "Cyclone", also known as Tsiklon), GRAU index 11K67, was a Soviet-designed expendable launch system, primarily used to put Cosmos satellites into low Earth orbit. It is based on the R-36 intercontinental ballistic missi ...

. The Mayak family is designed to cover small-lift, medium-lift and

heavy-lift An airlift is the organized delivery of supplies or personnel primarily via military transport aircraft. Airlifting consists of two distinct types: strategic and tactical. Typically, strategic airlifting involves moving material long distance ...

requirements. Published parameters of various configurations are:

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