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DS-K-40 2
Launch FailureLaunch Details
Date: 21 Feb 1966, 01:30 pm UTC
Rocket: Kosmos-2I 63S1 (Kosmos)
Provider: Soviet Space Program
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: 86/1, Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation
Mission Description
DS-K-40 was a series of experimental ELINT satellites developed by Yuzhnoye to test technologies for the Tselina-O program.