Kosmos 1095, a Zenit-6U (Argon) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3 placed the craft in LEO for short-duration optical imaging with recoverable film capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 144th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 1979, 11:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-034
- Launches in 1979
- 35th of 110
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