Aureole 2 (Oreol 2 / DS-U2-GKA #2 / ARCAD 2), a joint Soviet–French science satellite launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk to study high-latitude upper-atmosphere physics and the nature of auroras.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 348 kg
- Flight
- 79th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1973, 16:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1973-107
- Launches in 1973
- 114th of 116
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