Kosmos 137 (DS-U2-D No.1), a Soviet Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik science satellite launched on a Kosmos-2I from Kapustin Yar into an elliptical LEO to study charged-particle fluxes in Earth’s magnetosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 237 kg
- Flight
- 37th
- of 38 Kosmos-2I flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 1966, 13:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-2I
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 86/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-117
- Launches in 1966
- 130th of 131
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