Kosmos 602 (Zenit-4MK #16, Germes #16), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the GRU. Voskhod from Plesetsk Site 43/4 placed the craft in LEO for a short optical imaging mission with a recoverable film capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 230th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 1973, 10:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-077
- Launches in 1973
- 84th of 116
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