Kosmos 138 (Zenit-2 No.45), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Vostok-2 from Plesetsk into LEO for military optical area-survey imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 40th
- of 44 Vostok 8A92 flights
- Date and time
- 19 January 1967, 12:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-004
- Launches in 1967
- 4th of 139
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