Interkosmos 7 (DS-U3-IK #3), an international socialist-bloc solar-physics satellite measuring solar UV and X-ray effects on Earth's upper atmosphere with East European experiments. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Kapustin Yar Site 86/4 placed the ~375 kg sun-pointed craft in LEO on 30 June 1972.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 301 kg
- Flight
- 91st
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 30 June 1972, 05:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 86/4, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1972-047
- Launches in 1972
- 50th of 113
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