Kosmos 697 (Yantar-2K/Feniks #2), the first successful Soviet fourth-generation film-return photoreconnaissance satellite after a May 1974 failure; recovered after a 12-day mission from Plesetsk.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1974, 13:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1974-098
- Launches in 1974
- 105th of 113
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