Kosmos 258 (Zenit-2 No.69), a Soviet area-surveillance film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Baikonur Site 31/6 for military optical imaging from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.8 T
- Flight
- 81st
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 1968, 08:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1968-111
- Launches in 1968
- 120th of 128
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