Kosmos 248 (I2M No.2), a Soviet ASAT target satellite for the co-orbital interceptor program. Tsyklon-2A from Baikonur Site 90/19 on 19 October 1968 placed it in LEO; the following day's Kosmos 249 intercept test used it as the target.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 8 Tsiklon-2A flights
- Date and time
- 19 October 1968, 04:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2A
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1968-090
- Launches in 1968
- 98th of 128
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