Kosmos 686 (DS-P1-Yu #72), a Soviet radar-calibration / air-defense training target satellite. Kosmos-2 (11K63) from Plesetsk Site 133/1 placed the craft in LEO as a passive radar reflector for PVO sensor exercises.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 200 kg
- Flight
- 114th
- of 126 Kosmos 11K63 flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 1974, 16:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos 11K63
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 133/3 (133L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1974-074
- Launches in 1974
- 80th of 113
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