Kosmos 1 (DS-2 No.1 / Sputnik 11), the first satellite under the Kosmos designation and first successful Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik, launched on a Kosmos-2I (63S1) from Kapustin Yar on 16 March 1962. Technology and ionospheric research craft; first Kosmos rocket to orbit a payload.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 47 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1962, 11:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1962-008
- Launches in 1962
- 10th of 81
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