Kosmos 653 (Zenit-2M #47 / Gektor), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite launched on a Voskhod from Plesetsk for military optical surveillance.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 244th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1974, 12:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-031
- Launches in 1974
- 33rd of 113
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