Kosmos 469 (US-A #3), a Soviet nuclear-powered RORSAT ocean-surveillance radar satellite launched on a Tsyklon-2 from Baikonur; its BES-5 reactor was later boosted to a disposal orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 25 December 1971, 11:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-117
- Launches in 1971
- 130th of 133
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