Kosmos 42 and 43 (Strela-1 No.4 and No.5), a dual Soviet military store-and-forward communications satellite launch on a Kosmos-2I (63S1) from Kapustin Yar Mayak-2 for low-Earth-orbit message relay technology tests.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 100 kg
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 22 August 1964, 11:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- Mayak-2, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1964-050
- Launches in 1964
- 59th of 100
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