Kosmos 19 (DS-P1 No.3), a Soviet radar-calibration satellite with a spherical mesh reflector for testing Dnestr (Hen House) space-surveillance and early-warning radars. Kosmos-2I (63S1) from Kapustin Yar Mayak-2 lofted it on 6 August 1963 into LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 240 kg
- Flight
- 15th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 6 August 1963, 06:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1963-033
- Launches in 1963
- 42nd of 69
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