Mission type ABM radar target Spacecraft type DS-P1-Yu Rocket Kosmos-2I 63S1 Launch date 30 July 1964 Decay date 28 February 1965 | COSPAR ID 1964-042A Launch mass 325 kilograms (717 lb) Launch site Kapustin Yar Mayak-2 Manufacturer Yuzhnoye Design Office | |
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Kosmos 36 (Russian: Космос 36 meaning Cosmos 36), also known as DS-P1-Yu #1 was a satellite which was used as a radar calibration target, for tests of anti-ballistic missiles. It was launched by the Soviet Union in 1964 as part of the Dnepropetrovsk Sputnik programme. It was built by the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau.
Kosmos 36 was launched using a Kosmos-2I 63S1 carrier rocket, which flew from pad 2 of the Mayak Launch Complex at Kapustin Yar. The launch occurred at 03:36 UTC on 30 July 1964.
After separating from its carrier rocket, Kosmos 36 was in a low Earth orbit with a perigee of 253 kilometres (157 mi), an apogee of 476 kilometres (296 mi), 49.0 degrees of inclination, and an orbital period of 91.83 minutes. It decayed from orbit on 28 February 1965. Kosmos 36 was the first of seventy nine DS-P1-Yu satellites to be launched, of which all but seven were successful. The next launch of a DS-P1-Yu satellite, on 12 February 1965, failed due to a second stage malfunction.