Kosmos 936 (Bion 4), a Soviet biosatellite carrying international life-sciences experiments with rats and other specimens from multiple countries including the U.S., launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3 for a multi-day biology mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 71st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 3 August 1977, 14:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Biology
- International designator
- 1977-074
- Launches in 1977
- 75th of 130
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