Kosmos 474 (Zenit-4M #31, Rotor #31), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod from Baikonur LC-31/6 placed the craft in LEO for a short optical imaging mission for military intelligence.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 177th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 16 February 1972, 09:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-008
- Launches in 1972
- 8th of 113
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