Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 1049, a Zenit-4MKM (Gerakl) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military from low Earth orbit; recovered after about two weeks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 125th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 21 November 1978, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-107
- Launches in 1978
- 111th of 128
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