Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3 launched Kosmos 916, a Zenit-4MT (Orion #12) film-return topographic photoreconnaissance satellite for Soviet military mapping and cartographic imaging from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 64th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1977, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-046
- Launches in 1977
- 47th of 130
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