
Kosmos 517 (Zenit-2M #31 / Gektor), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Baikonur for military optical imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 195th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 1972, 08:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-067
- Launches in 1972
- 71st of 113
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