Second 1MS technology satellite (would-be Kosmos 12), an OKB-1 ~285 kg battery-powered research craft for cosmic-ray and radiation measurements, launched on a Kosmos-2I from Kapustin Yar Mayak-2; the vehicle failed and the payload never reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 10th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 25 October 1962, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- Launches in 1962
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