Ukranian Space Program

The Ukrainian Space Program has many Ukraine Launch Vehicles and they include:

- Zenit launched in Baikour Cosmodrome, Kazakshtan and by Sea Launch

- Tsyklon

- Dnepr

Dnepr

Dnepr Rocket The Dnepr is a three-stage rocket using storable toxic liquid propellants. It is a converted ICBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit and is based on the RS-20 (SS-18 Satan) ballistic missile.

The rocket is named after the Dnieper River.

It is operated by launch service provider ISC Kosmotras. The first launch was on 21 April, 1999 with the payload UoSAT-12, a 350 kg demonstration mini-satellite into a 650 km circular LEO.

Sich Spacecraft

Ukraine launched its first Earth remote observation system, Sich-1 in 1995 and its modernized version Sich-1M in 2004. Sich-2 is being developed by Ukraine's Yuzhnoye design bureau and will be launched by a Dnepr rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan in 2008.

Dnepr and Genesis Spacecraft

Genesis I, an experimental space habitat designed and built by the private American firm Bigelow Aerospace as the first of six to ten test spacecraft was launched on 12 July 2006. Genesis I was a reduced-scale prototype for a future privately-owned space station. Genesis 2, the second prototype inflatable space module was launched on 28 June 2007.

Sea Launch

Sea Launch is a mobile sea platform, used for spacecraft launches of commercial payloads using the Zenit 3SL rockets.

Did you know?

* The first Ukrainian astronaut of independent Ukraine was Leonid K. Kadenyuk who flew on Space Shuttle Columbia STS-87 mission on 13 May 1997 as payload specialist. Prior to Ukraine's independence, many Ukrainian cosmonauts flew under the Soviet flag.

* Mayak is the name of a future launch vehicle.

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