Kosmos 22 (Zenit-4 #1), the first Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite and the maiden flight of both the Zenit-4 spacecraft and the Voskhod 11A57 rocket from Baikonur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 16 November 1963, 10:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-045
- Launches in 1963
- 58th of 69
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