Kosmos 426 (DS-U2-K #1), the only satellite of its type, a Soviet magnetospheric research probe launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk to study charged particles, radiation, and Earth's magnetic field.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 298 kg
- Flight
- 39th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 4 June 1971, 18:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1971-052
- Launches in 1971
- 56th of 133
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