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Kosmos 117 (Russian: Космос 117 meaning Cosmos 117) or Zenit-2 No.39 was a Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite launched in 1966. A Zenit-2 spacecraft Kosmos 117 was the thirty-eighth of eighty-one such satellites to be launched and had a mass of 4730.0 kilograms (10427.9 lb).Kosmos 117 was launched by a Vostok-2 rocket serial number N15001-01 flying from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.