Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/4 launched Kosmos 969, a Zenit-4MKM (Gerakl) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military that recovered its capsule after a short LEO mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 85th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 December 1977, 15:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1977-120
- Launches in 1977
- 126th of 130
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