Kosmos 518 (Zenit-2M #32 / Gektor), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Plesetsk with a Nauka science module; recovered after about nine days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 197th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 15 September 1972, 09:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-070
- Launches in 1972
- 75th of 113
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