Kosmos 198 (US-AO No.3), a prototype Soviet nuclear-powered ocean-surveillance radar satellite in the US-A (RORSAT) program. Tsiklon-2A from Baikonur Site 90 lofted it on 27 December 1967 into LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 8 Tsiklon-2A flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1967, 11:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2A
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-127
- Launches in 1967
- 139th of 139
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