Beskrivning : Interkosmos 5 was launched on 2 December 1971 on a Kosmos-2 rocket from the Kapustin Yar cosmodrome. It measured the radiation levels in near-Earth space, investigated dipole corpuscular streams in near space in connexion with solar activity and investigation of the nature and spectrum of low-frequency electromagnetic oscillations in natural plasma. The satellite featured Czechoslovakian and Soviet instruments to investigate the effects of solar activity on near-Earth radiation.
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