Kosmos 486 (Zenit-4M #34 / Rotor), 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
- 183rd
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 14 April 1972, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-030
- Launches in 1972
- 31st of 113
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