Kosmos 651 (US-A #7), a Soviet nuclear-powered RORSAT radar ocean reconnaissance satellite launched on a Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur for active radar surveillance of naval vessels.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1974, 07:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-029
- Launches in 1974
- 31st of 113
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