Kosmos 271 (Zenit-4 No.53), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Plesetsk for military optical imaging, recovered after about eight days in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 87th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 15 March 1969, 12:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1969-023
- Launches in 1969
- 28th of 125
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