Interkosmos 8 (DS-U1-IK #2), an international socialist-bloc scientific satellite studying Earth's ionosphere with East European electron- and ion-density experiments. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk Site 133/1 placed the ~340 kg battery-powered craft in LEO on 30 November 1972.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 287 kg
- Flight
- 98th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 30 November 1972, 21:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1972-094
- Launches in 1972
- 101st of 113
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