Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3 launched Kosmos 995, a Zenit-2M (Gektor) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military that imaged targets from LEO before capsule recovery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 98th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 March 1978, 10:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-030
- Launches in 1978
- 30th of 128
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