Progress 1, the first Soviet automated Progress cargo freighter, launched on Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31/6 to resupply Salyut 6. It delivered food, water, propellant, oxygen, and spares to the resident crew, beginning the Progress resupply era for space stations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 90th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 January 1978, 08:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1978-008
- Launches in 1978
- 8th of 128
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