Interkosmos 8 [Yuzhnoye]
The Interkosmos DS-U1-IK series consisted of two missions in to investigate the ionosphere. They were conducted by Interkosmos, an international cooperation of socialist countries.
The satellites were based on Yuzhnoye's DS-U1 bus. The satellites were battery powered. These satellites carried a suite of east European experiments to study the characteristics of the earth's ionosphere and of concentrations of electrons and positive ions.
Interkosmos 2 was launched on 25 December 1969 on a Kosmos-2 rocket from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome.
Interkosmos 8 was launched on 30 November 1972 on a Kosmos-2 rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome.
|Type / Application:||Science|
|Mass:||320 kg (#2); 340 kg (#8)|
|Interkosmos 2 (DS-U1-IK #1)||1969-110A||25.12.1969||KY LC-86/4||Kosmos-2|
|Interkosmos 8 (DS-U1-IK #2)||1972-094A||30.11.1972||Pl LC-133/1||Kosmos-2|
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