OGCh #6 (U-2), a Soviet Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) test warhead bus. R-36O (8K69) from Baikonur Site 162/36 launched it on 2 November 1966; it reached LEO but the unannounced mission was a partial failure and was not given a Kosmos designation.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 16 R-36O 8K69 flights
- Date and time
- 2 November 1966, 00:45 UTC
- Rocket
- R-36O 8K69
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 162/36, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1966-101
- Launches in 1966
- 108th of 131
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