Kosmos 601 (DS-P1-Yu #65), a Soviet radar-calibration target used to check Dnestr/Hen House space-surveillance and early-warning radars. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk Site 133/1 placed the ~200 kg craft in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 105th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 16 October 1973, 14:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1973-075
- Launches in 1973
- 82nd of 116
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