Kosmos 455 (DS-P1-Yu No.54), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite for air-defense and space-surveillance radars. Kosmos-2I (11K63) from Plesetsk LC-133/1 placed the ~200 kg mesh-reflector craft in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 82nd
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 17 November 1971, 11:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1971-097
- Launches in 1971
- 107th of 133
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