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25 January 1969, 11:14 UTC

US-AO 5

Tsiklon-2ABaikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Drawing of the Tsiklon-2A for US-AO 5

US-AO No.5, a Soviet battery-powered active-radar ocean-surveillance test satellite (RORSAT precursor without nuclear reactor). Tsiklon-2A from Baikonur Site 90/19 on 25 January 1969 failed to reach orbit; no Kosmos designation assigned.

Outcome
Failure
Orbit
LEO
Low Earth orbit
Payload to orbit
Did not reach orbit
Flight
8th
of 8 Tsiklon-2A flights
Date and time
25 January 1969, 11:14 UTC
Builder
Yuzhmash
Launch site
90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
Payload
Government/Top Secret
Launches in 1969
10th of 125