Kosmos 242 (DS-P1-I No.4), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite launched on a Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk Site 133/1 into low Earth orbit to support military radar and air-defense tracking tests.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 31st
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 20 September 1968, 14:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1968-079
- Launches in 1968
- 87th of 128
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