Kosmos 596 (Zenit-2M #42, Gektor #42) with piggyback FEU-170 science package, a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod from Plesetsk Site 41/1 reached LEO, but the parachute failed on recovery and the film capsule was lost.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 225th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 3 October 1973, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-070
- Launches in 1973
- 77th of 116
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