Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 1046, a Zenit-4MT topographic film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, mapping terrain from low Earth orbit; recovered after about two weeks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 123rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 1 November 1978, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-102
- Launches in 1978
- 106th of 128
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