Kosmos 721 (Zenit-2M/Gektor), a Soviet medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Voskhod from Plesetsk Site 41/1 placed the craft in LEO on 26 March 1975 for area imaging with a recoverable film capsule for the GRU.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 265th
- of 299 Voskhod flights
- Date and time
- 26 March 1975, 08:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Voskhod
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1975-020
- Launches in 1975
- 21st of 132
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