Kosmos 879 (Zenit-2M #73, Gektor #73), a Soviet film-return area-surveillance photoreconnaissance satellite for the military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/4 into LEO for a ~12-day imaging mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 46th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 9 December 1976, 10:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-119
- Launches in 1976
- 122nd of 131
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