Kosmos 209 (US-AO No.4), a battery-powered Soviet prototype testing non-reactor systems for the US-A (RORSAT) radar ocean-reconnaissance program. Tsiklon-2A from Baikonur Site 90/19 lofted it on 22 March 1968.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 8 Tsiklon-2A flights
- Date and time
- 22 March 1968, 09:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2A
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-023
- Launches in 1968
- 25th of 128
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