Kosmos 524 (DS-P1-Yu #58), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite for air-defense and radar testing. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk placed the craft in LEO as a radar cross-section calibration target.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 96th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 11 October 1972, 13:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1972-080
- Launches in 1972
- 85th of 113
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