Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31/6 launched Kosmos 966, a Zenit-2M (Gektor) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military with a Nauka module; the imaging capsule was recovered from LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 84th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 1977, 09:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-115
- Launches in 1977
- 121st of 130
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