Kosmos 255 (Zenit-2 No.68), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod (11A57) from Plesetsk Site 41/1 lofted it on 29 November 1968 for optical imaging for the GRU.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.8 T
- Flight
- 80th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 29 November 1968, 12:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-105
- Launches in 1968
- 113th of 128
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