Start-1
Sign in to saveStart-1 is a Russian satellite launch vehicle based on the RT-2PM Topol, a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile developed by Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology.
Key facts
- Rocket.name
- Start-1
- Rocket.image
- Start_launch_big.jpg
- Rocket.caption
- Start-1 launch vehicle lifting off from the Svobodny Cosmodrome
- Rocket.function
- Small orbital launch vehicle
- Rocket.manufacturer
- Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology
- Rocket.country origin
- Russia
- Rocket.stages
- 4
- Rocket.status
- Retired
- Rocket.sites
- LC-5, Svobodny CosmodromeLC-158, Plesetsk Cosmodrome
- Rocket.first
- 25 March 1993
- Rocket.last
- 25 April 2006
- Rocket.launches
- 7
- Rocket.success
- 6
- Rocket.fail
- 1
- Rocket/payload.location
- SSO
- Rocket/stage.type
- stage
- Rocket/stage.stageno
- Fourth
- Rocket/stage.name
- Start
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Start-1 is a Russian satellite launch vehicle based on the RT-2PM Topol, a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile developed by Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology.
== History == The Start-1 launch vehicle derives its name from the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) between the United States and the Soviet Union. The START I treaty called for both sides to limit their nuclear arsenals to 6,000 nuclear warheads atop a total of 1,600 ICBMs, SLBMs, and bombers. This led to a lot of surplus ICBMs on both sides, including the Soviet Topol. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia took over responsibility for executing the treaty. The Russian government decided to dispose of some of their ICBMs by using them as launch vehicles, which was an allowed method of disposal under the treaty.