Kosmos 493 (Zenit-2M #29, Gektor #29), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod from Baikonur placed the craft in LEO for short-duration optical imaging for military intelligence.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 188th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 21 June 1972, 06:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-042
- Launches in 1972
- 45th of 113
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