Kosmos 420 (Zenit-4M #15 / Rotor #15), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Baikonur for military optical imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 153rd
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 18 May 1971, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-043
- Launches in 1971
- 47th of 133
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