Kosmos 5 (2MS #2 / Sputnik 15), a Soviet ~280 kg OKB-1 technology and radiation-research satellite launched on a Kosmos-2I from Kapustin Yar into a 192×1578 km orbit; later damaged by the Starfish Prime artificial radiation belt.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 252 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 28 May 1962, 03:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1962-020
- Launches in 1962
- 25th of 81
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