Kosmos 485 (DS-P1-Yu #52), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite launched on a Kosmos-2 from Plesetsk to support space-surveillance and early-warning radar testing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 88th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 11 April 1972, 11:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1972-028
- Launches in 1972
- 29th of 113
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