Kosmos 599 (Zenit-2M #43, Gektor #43), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod from Baikonur Site 1/5 placed the craft in LEO for a short recoverable optical imaging mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 228th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 15 October 1973, 08:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-073
- Launches in 1973
- 80th of 116
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