Kosmos 501 (DS-P1-Yu #56), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite for space-surveillance and early-warning radar practice. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Kapustin Yar Site 86/4 placed the Dnepropetrovsk craft in LEO on 12 July 1972.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 94th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 12 July 1972, 05:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 86/4, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1972-054
- Launches in 1972
- 57th of 113
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