Kosmos 106 (DS-P1-I No.1), the first Soviet DS-P1-I radar-calibration target for space-surveillance and early-warning radars. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Kapustin Yar lofted it on 25 January 1966 into LEO as a dodecahedral radar-reflector satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 25 January 1966, 12:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 86/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1966-004
- Launches in 1966
- 5th of 131
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