[FPSPACE] Cosmos 382 mystery update

[Mark Wade]

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/soy7kl1e.htm

Soyuz 7K-L1E was ..."was a modified Soyuz 7K-L1 circumlunar spacecraft,
which provided guidance to the Block D and was equipped with television
cameras that viewed the behavior of the Block D stage propellants under
zero-G conditions. Mission flown successfully over a year later as Cosmos
382. "

Cosmos 382 was a ..."test of Block D upper stage in its N1 lunar crasher
configuration in earth orbit..."

Sources on the page.

-- 
Mark Wade
Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://www.astronautix.com/
astronautix at gmail.com
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