Kosmos 1004 (Zenit-2M #88, Gektor) with Nauka-23KS 2L piggyback, a Soviet area-surveillance film-return photoreconnaissance satellite. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3 placed the craft in LEO for a ~12-day optical imaging mission with recoverable film capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 103rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 1978, 15:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-043
- Launches in 1978
- 44th of 128
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