Kosmos 3 (2MS No.1 / Sputnik 13), a Soviet scientific research and technology satellite for cosmic-ray and radiation measurements, launched on a Kosmos-2I (63S1) from Kapustin Yar Mayak-2 on 24 April 1962. It flew an elliptical low Earth orbit until decay on 17 October 1962.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 251 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 24 April 1962, 04:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1962-013
- Launches in 1962
- 15th of 81
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