Kosmos 561 (Zenit-2M #38 / Gektor), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Plesetsk, with a Nauka science module.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 214th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 1973, 13:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-033
- Launches in 1973
- 36th of 116
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