Kosmos 172 (Zenit-4 No.33), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod from Baikonur Site 1/5 placed it in LEO for optical imaging for the GRU on 9 August 1967.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 42nd
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 9 August 1967, 05:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1967-078
- Launches in 1967
- 86th of 139
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