Kosmos 6 (DS-P1 No. 1 / Sputnik 16), a Soviet radar-calibration target and technology satellite for air-defense tracking tests. Kosmos-2I (63S1) from Kapustin Yar Mayak-2 successfully placed it in LEO; it reentered in September 1962.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 240 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 30 June 1962, 16:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1962-028
- Launches in 1962
- 34th of 81
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