Kosmos 476 (Tselina-D #3), a Soviet detailed electronic-intelligence satellite for mapping and classifying radio emitters. Vostok-2M from Plesetsk LC-43/4 placed the ~2 t craft in LEO for the Tselina dual-satellite ELINT system.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 24th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 1 March 1972, 11:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-011
- Launches in 1972
- 12th of 113
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