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Proton 3
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Date: 6 July 1966, 12:57 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.