Head to head

Titan IIIC vs Vostok 8A92

Two vehicles in the same payload class. Every figure below comes from the same two sources for both rockets, and a row appears only when both publish the input.

Payload to low Earth orbit

Relative

Titan IIIC: 13,100 kg

Vostok 8A92: 4,730 kg

Side by side

8 comparable figures

The highlighted value wins the row. Rows where neither direction is better, like length or stage count, highlight nothing.

Metric	Titan IIIC	Vostok 8A92
Flights flown	36	44
Success rate	94.4%	90.9%
Payload to LEO (kg)	13,100	4,730
Liftoff thrust (kN)	10,586	3,996
Length (m)	42	30.84
Diameter (m)	3	2.99
Launch mass (t)	626	281
Stages	3	2

Titan IIIC

Flight record

94.4% success rate34 of 36 flown · 2 failed

1965peak 1965 · 3 flights1982

Maiden flight 1965-06-18. Retired.

Vostok 8A92

Flight record

90.9% success rate40 of 44 flown · 4 failed

1962peak 1966 · 10 flights1967

Maiden flight 1962-06-01. Retired.

Titan IIIC is built by Lockheed Martin of the United States.Vostok 8A92 is built by RKK Energiya of Russia.

Full specifications and the complete launch history for each: Titan IIIC · Vostok 8A92.

Specifications from Launch Library 2 by The Space Devs, launch records from Space Index. Derived figures are computed here; see sources and method.