Sfera No.2 (Geoid), a Soviet geodetic mapping satellite intended to improve cartographic accuracy with flash lamps and Doppler ranging, lost when its Kosmos-3M (11K65M) failed after liftoff from Plesetsk Site 132/2.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 9th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 4 June 1968, 18:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1968
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