Kosmos 987, a Zenit-4MKM (Gerakl) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/4 into a ~63° low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 92nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 31 January 1978, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-013
- Launches in 1978
- 13th of 128
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