Kosmos 139 (OGCh No.7), a Soviet Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) warhead test on an R-36O from Baikonur; it reached low Earth orbit then deorbited to impact at Kapustin Yar—the first fully successful FOBS orbital test.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 16 R-36O 8K69 flights
- Date and time
- 25 January 1967, 13:55 UTC
- Rocket
- R-36O 8K69
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 162/36, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-005
- Launches in 1967
- 5th of 139
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