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UR-500 | Proton 2

Proton 2

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Launch Details

Date: 2 Nov 1965, 12:28 pm UTC

Rocket: UR-500 (Proton / UR-500)

Provider: Soviet Space Program

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: 81/23 (81L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Mission Description

The N-4 series of satellites, a.k.a. Proton-1, carried instruments to study super-high energy cosmic particles.