Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 1044, a Zenit-2M (Gektor) medium-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military from low Earth orbit; recovered after about two weeks (decayed 30 October 1978).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 122nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 1978, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-097
- Launches in 1978
- 100th of 128
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