Kosmos 443 (Zenit-2M #23 / Gektor #23), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Plesetsk with a Nauka-8KS science module for military area-surveillance imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 167th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 7 October 1971, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1971-085
- Launches in 1971
- 94th of 133
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