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RLA-120
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RLA-120
RLA-120
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Russian heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle. Medium booster concept with a payload to low earth orbit of 30 metric tons using the RLA-120 core and a 150 metric ton upper stage. Glushko proposed that the RLA-120 would boost reconnaissance satellites and modules of his POS Permanent Orbital Station into a sun synchronous orbit beginning in 1979. The government rejected the RLA concept, but this design led directly to the successful Zenit-2 booster.

Status: Design 1974. Payload: 30,000 kg (66,000 lb). Thrust: 11,000.00 kN (2,472,000 lbf). Gross mass: 980,000 kg (2,160,000 lb). Height: 45.00 m (147.00 ft). Diameter: 6.00 m (19.60 ft). Apogee: 500 km (310 mi).

LEO Payload: 30,000 kg (66,000 lb) to a 500 km orbit at 97.00 degrees. Development Cost $: 12,500.000 million in 1974 dollars.

Stage Data - RLA-120



Family: heavy-lift, orbital launch vehicle. Country: Russia. Engines: RLA-1200. Stages: RLA-2, RLA-1. Agency: Korolev bureau.

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