Kosmos 2 (1MS No.1 / Sputnik 12), a Soviet OKB-1 battery-powered research satellite for cosmic-ray and radiation measurements and systems development, launched on a Kosmos-2I (63S1) from Kapustin Yar Mayak-2 on 6 April 1962 into an elliptical low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 224 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 6 April 1962, 17:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1962-009
- Launches in 1962
- 11th of 81
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