Kosmos 585 (Sfera #10), a Soviet geodetic satellite launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk to support mapping and geodesy for military and civilian applications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 72nd
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 8 September 1973, 01:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1973-064
- Launches in 1973
- 70th of 116
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