Kosmos 654 (US-A #8), a Soviet nuclear-powered RORSAT active radar ocean surveillance satellite launched on a Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur for naval target tracking.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 1974, 06:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/19, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-032
- Launches in 1974
- 34th of 113
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