Kosmos 312 (Sfera #5), a Soviet geodetic satellite launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk to support military and civil mapping and gravity-field measurements, remaining in low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 16th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 24 November 1969, 16:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1969-103
- Launches in 1969
- 116th of 125
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