Kosmos 626 (US-A #6), a Soviet nuclear-powered radar ocean reconnaissance satellite (RORSAT) for tracking naval surface ships. Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90/19 placed the craft in LEO; the reactor core was later boosted to a disposal orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 27 December 1973, 20:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-108
- Launches in 1973
- 115th of 116
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