Intercosmos 3

Intercosmos-3 is a satellite of the Intercosmos constellation. This program comes from the cooperation between the USSR and the other Soviet countries, for the development of satellite for scientific purposes. Intercosmos-3 was to study the magnetic fields, the radiations present in Earth orbit, as well as the influence of the solar activity on the evolution of these last ones. It was equipped with a low frequency analyzer, a transmitter and an instrument to measure the flow of charged particles.