AUOS-Z-R-E-IK 1

Interkosmos 17 (AUOS-Z-R-E-IK / Ellipse), a Soviet-led international scientific satellite studying energetic charged and neutral particles and micrometeoroids. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 placed the AUOS-series craft in LEO under the Interkosmos program.

Outcome

Success

Orbit

LEO

Low Earth orbit

Payload to orbit

1 T

Flight

165th

of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights

Date and time

24 September 1977, 16:30 UTC

Rocket

Kosmos-3M (11K65M)

Builder

Polyot

Launch site

132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Payload

Astrophysics

International designator

1977-096

Launches in 1977

100th of 130

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