Kosmos 723 (US-A #9), a Soviet nuclear-powered Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite (RORSAT). Tsiklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90/20 placed the BES-5 reactor-powered active-radar craft in LEO on 2 April 1975 to track naval vessels.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.8 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 2 April 1975, 11:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90/20, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1975-024
- Launches in 1975
- 25th of 132
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