Kosmos 1080, a Zenit-4MKM (Gerakl) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk placed the craft in LEO for short-duration optical imaging with recoverable film capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 141st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 14 March 1979, 10:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-023
- Launches in 1979
- 24th of 110
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