Kosmos 1096, a US-P (Legenda) ocean-reconnaissance radar satellite for the Soviet Navy's EORSAT constellation. Tsyklon-2 from Baikonur Site 90 placed the craft in ~65° LEO to track Western naval vessels via active radar.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 39th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 25 April 1979, 10:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-036
- Launches in 1979
- 37th of 110
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