Kosmos 53, a DS-A1 technology satellite testing equipment for communications and navigation systems and measuring radiation. Kosmos-2I from Kapustin Yar LC-86/1 lofted it into an elliptical LEO (about 221 × 1172 km) on 30 January 1965.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 220 kg
- Flight
- 27th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 30 January 1965, 09:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 86/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1965-006
- Launches in 1965
- 7th of 124
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