Kosmos 262 (DS-U2-GF No.1), a Soviet solar-physics satellite launched on a Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Kapustin Yar; the only DS-U2-GF flight, it studied vacuum-ultraviolet and soft X-ray solar radiation from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 283 kg
- Flight
- 36th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1968, 09:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 86/4, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1968-119
- Launches in 1968
- 128th of 128
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