Soyuz-U launched Kosmos 1050, a Zenit-6 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military; the recoverable capsule returned imagery after about two weeks on orbit (decayed 12 December 1978).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 126th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 28 November 1978, 16:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-108
- Launches in 1978
- 112th of 128
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