Kosmos 1099, a Zenit-4MKT (Fram) film-return topographic photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/4 into a near-polar low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 148th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 1979, 07:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-041
- Launches in 1979
- 42nd of 110
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