Kosmos 401 (Zenit-4M #13, Rotor), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod from Plesetsk LC-43/3 placed it in LEO for optical imaging; recoverable capsule returned after about two weeks on 9 April.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 149th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 27 March 1971, 10:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-023
- Launches in 1971
- 26th of 133
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