Kosmos 659 (Zenit-4MK #27, Germes #27), 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
- 247th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 13 June 1974, 12:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-043
- Launches in 1974
- 46th of 113
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