Kosmos 280 (Zenit-4M No.3 / Rotor), a Soviet improved high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with extended mission duration. Voskhod from Baikonur Site 1/5 placed it in LEO for optical imaging on 23 April 1969; recovered about 13 days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 93rd
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 23 April 1969, 09:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1969-040
- Launches in 1969
- 47th of 125
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