Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31/6 launched Kosmos 914, a Zenit-2M (Gektor #77) medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with a Nauka science module for the Soviet military, recovering its imaging capsule after a short LEO mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 62nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 31 May 1977, 07:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-043
- Launches in 1977
- 44th of 130
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