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Vehicle family profile

Topol

Family-level launch record combining canonical variants, historical missions, public cadence forecasts, and available payload performance specs.

Manufacturer unknownRetired
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Variants
2
Canonical variants linked to this family.
Historical missions
6
Missions in the public mission table with actual launch dates.
Peak listed capacity
Unknown
Maximum payload capacity across listed variants and orbits.

Launch Cadence

Historical missions are grouped by actual launch year. Forecast cadence uses family-level launch-rate rows.

YearHistorical missionsForecast launches
199310
199720
200010
200110
200610

Performance Specs

Payload capacity by variant and target orbit when structured capacity rows are available.

VariantOrbitCapacityAltitudeInclinationSource

No performance specs

No structured payload capacity rows are linked to this vehicle family.

Recent Missions

Latest launched missions using variants in this family.

MissionVariantLaunch
EROS B Mission
Start-1
Apr 25, 2006
Odin Mission
Start-1
Feb 20, 2001
EROS A1 Mission
Start-1
Dec 5, 2000
EarlyBird Mission

Variants

Canonical variants rolled up into this launch vehicle family.

VariantStagesMissionsStatus
Start-1
Not stated5Retired
Start-1.2
Not stated1Retired
Start-1
Dec 24, 1997
Zeya Mission
Start-1.2
Mar 4, 1997
EKA
Start-1
Mar 25, 1993

Forecasted Missions

Upcoming mission rows with announced launch timing.

MissionVariantAnnounced

No forecasted missions

No upcoming announced mission rows are linked to this vehicle family.

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Mentions
2
All verified mentions of this launch vehicle family in source documents.
0.0-5.0
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The Start-1M launch vehicle derived from the Topol-M ICBM is expected to be operational by 2026.

PlanValue 4.0May 13, 2024Russian research on space nukes and alternative counterspace weapons (part 1)

In 2016 the National Institutes of Health awarded Eric Topol a $207,000,000 grant to lead a significant part of the Precision Medicine (All of Us) Initiative.

General
Financial
Governance
Value 4.0
Oct 21, 2018
CONNECT to Honor Three Distinguished Innovators at Annual Awards