Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 41/1 failed to orbit a Zenit-2M (Gektor) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite with a Nauka science module; the military payload received no Kosmos number after the ascent failure.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 136th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 16 February 1979, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1979
- 13th of 110