
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
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2A
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1969
- 10th of 125
