Strela-2 1

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 28 Dec 1965, 12:30 pm UTC

Rocket: Kosmos 65S3 (Kosmos)

Provider: Soviet Space Program

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: 41/15, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Mission Description

The Strela-2 satellites were prototypes of the second component of the Strela store-dump communication system. It consisted of larger single satellites.