OGCh No.05L, the first attempted orbital Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) warhead test on an R-36O from Baikonur; the dummy reached LEO but a wrong deorbit orientation left it in a higher orbit and it was commanded to self-destruct.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 16 R-36O 8K69 flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 1966, 22:35 UTC
- Rocket
- R-36O 8K69
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 162/36, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1966-088
- Launches in 1966
- 93rd of 131
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