Kosmos 587 (Zenit-4MK #14 / Germes), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk for military optical imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 21 September 1973, 13:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-066
- Launches in 1973
- 73rd of 116
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