Kosmos 668 (DS-P1-Yu #71), a Soviet radar-calibration satellite used as a test target for Dnestr (Hen House) space-surveillance and early-warning radars. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk Site 133/1 placed the Yuzhnoye craft in LEO on 25 July 1974.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 113th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 25 July 1974, 12:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1974-058
- Launches in 1974
- 63rd of 113
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