Kosmos 17 (DS-A1 #2), a Soviet Yuzhnoye technology satellite testing equipment for communications and navigation systems while measuring radiation. Kosmos-2I from Kapustin Yar placed it in LEO on 22 May 1963.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 220 kg
- Flight
- 13th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 22 May 1963, 03:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1963-017
- Launches in 1963
- 24th of 69
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