LAUNCH CENTER

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Success
Wed Dec 27 1972
Soviet Space Program

Zenit-4MT 3

Launch Successful
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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Soyuz 11A511M

Description:

The Soyuz was a Soviet expendable carrier rocket designed in the 1960s by OKB-1 and manufactured by State Aviation Plant No. 1 in Kuybyshev, Soviet Union. It was commissioned to launch Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soviet human spaceflight program, first with 8 uncrewed test flights, followed by the first 19 crewed launches.

Soyuz 11A511M rocket
MISSION OVERVIEW
  • Type: Government/Top Secret
  • Film-return reconnaissance satellite
COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Pad

41/1