Kosmos 538 (Zenit-4M #44 / 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
- 203rd
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 1972, 13:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-099
- Launches in 1972
- 106th of 113
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