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Status

Success

Cosmos 394

Launch Time
Tue Feb 09, 1971 18:48 UTC

Rocket

Cosmos-3M
Image Credit: OKB-586
RVSN USSR
Status: Retired
Liftoff Thrust: 1,486 kN
Payload to LEO: 1,500 kg
Payload to GTO: 0 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 32.42 m
Fairing Diameter: 2.44 m
Fairing Height: 5.72 m

Mission Details

Cosmos 394

Cosmos 394 is a satellite of the DS-P1 constellation. The satellites of the latter are used to test different systems for future Soviet military satellites.
It will test mainly new methods of communication with the ground, new radar systems and modes of power supply by nuclear battery.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 463.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

Site 132/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia

Stats

1971

10th orbital launch attempt

Cosmos-3

47th mission
1st mission of 1971
38th successful mission
1st consecutive successful mission