Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31/6 launched Kosmos 999, 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
- 99th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 30 March 1978, 07:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-033
- Launches in 1978
- 34th of 128
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