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N1M 1974
N1M 1974
N1M of 1974

Russian heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. The N1M was to be the first Soviet launch vehicle to use liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen high energy cryogenic propellants. It was designed to launch payloads in support of the LEK lunar expeditions (two cosmonauts on the surface), the DLB (long-duration lunar base), and heavy unmanned satellites into geosynchronous and interplanetary trajectories. As originally conceived, the advanced propellants would be used in all upper stages. However due to delays in Kuznetsov development of a 200 metric ton thrust LOx/LH2 engine, the final version used an N1 first stage, with a Block V-III second stage, and Blocks S and R third and fourth stages.

Status: Development ended 1971. Thrust: 43,295.50 kN (9,733,216 lbf). Gross mass: 2,348,000 kg (5,176,000 lb). Height: 96.00 m (314.00 ft). Diameter: 10.00 m (32.00 ft).

Stage Data - N1M



Family: heavy-lift, orbital launch vehicle. Country: Russia. Engines: RD-57, NK-15, RD-56. Spacecraft: L3M-1970. Stages: N1 Block R, N1 Block S, N1 Block A, N1 Block V-III. Agency: Korolev bureau.


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N1M cutaway N1M cutawayCredit: © Mark Wade


N1 and N-1M N1 and N-1MN1 and N-1M Dynamic test modelsCredit: © Mark Wade



1967 June 15 - . LV Family: N1. Launch Vehicle: N1M.


1971 May 15 - . LV Family: N1. Launch Vehicle: N1M.



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