Kosmos 79 (Zenit-4 No.10), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod 11A57 from Baikonur LC-1/5 lofted it into LEO on 25 August 1965 for optical imaging; the recoverable capsule returned on 2 September.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 14th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 25 August 1965, 10:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1965-069
- Launches in 1965
- 77th of 124
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