Interkosmos 4 (DS-U3-IK #2), a socialist-bloc solar physics satellite measuring ultraviolet and X-ray effects on the upper atmosphere. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Kapustin Yar LC-86/4 lofted the sun-pointed craft on 14 October 1970 into LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 303 kg
- Flight
- 69th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 14 October 1970, 11:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 86/4, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1970-084
- Launches in 1970
- 92nd of 124
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