Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 1047, a Zenit-4MKM (Gerakl) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military from low Earth orbit; recovered after about two weeks (decayed 28 November 1978).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 124th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 15 November 1978, 11:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-104
- Launches in 1978
- 108th of 128
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