Kosmos 650 (Sfera #11 / Geoid), a Soviet geodetic satellite launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk; used flashing lights and Doppler tracking to refine map positions to tens of meters.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 84th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 29 April 1974, 17:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1974-028
- Launches in 1974
- 30th of 113
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