Kosmos 4 (Zenit-2 #2 / Sputnik 14), the first Soviet military film-return photoreconnaissance satellite to reach orbit, launched on a Vostok-K from Baikonur Site 1/5; an orientation-system malfunction limited imaging before recovery on 29 April.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 13 Vostok-K flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 1962, 10:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok-K
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-014
- Launches in 1962
- 16th of 81
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