Kosmos 847 (Zenit-4MK/Germes #64), a Soviet high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/4 placed the craft in LEO for a ~13-day optical imaging mission with recoverable film capsule for the GRU.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 4 August 1976, 13:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-079
- Launches in 1976
- 80th of 131
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