Kosmos 1072, a Parus military navigation satellite for the Soviet Tsiklon system, launched on a Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 into a near-polar low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg
- Flight
- 196th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 16 January 1979, 17:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1979-003
- Launches in 1979
- 3rd of 110
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