Failed DS-A1 technology satellite (would-be Kosmos) from Kapustin Yar on a Kosmos-2I 63S1; the Yuzhnoye DS-bus craft was built to test communications and navigation techniques plus radiation sensors but the launcher failed to reach orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 17th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 24 October 1963, 04:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1963
- 52nd of 69