Kosmos 579 (Zenit-4M/Rotor #53), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod (11A57) from Plesetsk Site 41/1 placed the craft in LEO on 21 August 1973 for a short optical imaging mission with a recoverable film capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 221st
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 21 August 1973, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-055
- Launches in 1973
- 61st of 116
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