Russian Space Forces
| Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation Feb. 28, 1973, 4:37 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Tselina-O (11F616) was one component of two-satellite Tselina ELINT satellite system. Tselina-O provided general ELINT surveillance to be examined in detail by the larger Tselina-D satellites.
Soviet Space Program
| Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation Feb. 8, 1973, 1:15 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The soviet Zenit-4M (Rotor, 11F691) was an improved version of the Zenit-4 high resolution reconnaissance satellite and was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.
Russian Space Forces
| Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan Feb. 3, 1973, 5:48 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Molniya were Soviet communication satellites operating from an inclined highly elliptical earth orbit of 500 km × 40000 km with 12 hour period for coverage of high northern latitudes.
Soviet Space Program
| Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan Feb. 1, 1973, 8:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The soviet Zenit-2M (Gektor, 11F690) was an improved version of the Zenit-2 area surveillance reconnaissance satellite. It was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.
Russian Space Forces
| Russia
Kapustin Yar, Russian Federation Jan. 26, 1973, 11:44 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Zaliv-GVM satellites were mass models of the Zaliv navigation satellites, which were launched as payload substitutes on some Kosmos-3M evaluation launches.
Russian Space Forces
| Russia
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation Jan. 20, 1973, 3:36 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The Tselina-O (11F616) was one component of two-satellite Tselina ELINT satellite system. Tselina-O provided general ELINT surveillance to be examined in detail by the larger Tselina-D satellites.
Soviet Space Program
| Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan Jan. 11, 1973, 10 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:
The soviet Zenit-4M (Rotor, 11F691) was an improved version of the Zenit-4 high resolution reconnaissance satellite and was part of the Vostok-based Zenit-family.