Kosmos 553 (DS-P1-Yu #61), a Soviet radar-calibration target satellite for air-defense and space-tracking practice. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk Site 133/1 placed the Dnepropetrovsk craft in LEO on 12 April 1973.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 100th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 12 April 1973, 11:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1973-020
- Launches in 1973
- 20th of 116
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