Kosmos 525 (Zenit-2M/Gektor #33), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with a co-manifested Nauka-16KS science module. Voskhod (11A57) from Plesetsk Site 43/4 placed the craft in LEO on 18 October 1972 for a short optical imaging mission; it decayed 29 October 1972.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 200th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 18 October 1972, 11:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-083
- Launches in 1972
- 89th of 113
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