Kosmos 629 (Zenit-2M #44, Gektor #44), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with an FEU-170 piggyback science package. Voskhod from Plesetsk Site 43/4 placed the craft in LEO for a short recoverable imaging mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 236th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1974, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-003
- Launches in 1974
- 3rd of 113
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