Failed first flight of the Yantar-2K (Feniks #1) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite; no Kosmos number was assigned. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3 failed on 23 May 1974 and did not reach orbit, delaying the Yantar program’s debut.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 7th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 23 May 1974, 12:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1974
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