The Polyot (Also known as Sputnik GRAU index 11A59) was an interim orbital carrier rocket built to test ASAT spacecraft. It was required as a stopgap after the cancellation of the UR-200 programme but before the Tsyklon could enter service. Only two were ever launched the first on 1 November 1963 and the last on 12 April 1964. Both of these flights were successful.The rocket consisted of a core stage and four boosters which were taken from a Voskhod 11A57 rocket.
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