Kosmos 424 (Zenit-4M #16 / Rotor #16), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Plesetsk for military optical imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 154th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 28 May 1971, 10:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-048
- Launches in 1971
- 52nd of 133
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