Kosmos 1100 and Kosmos 1101, a pair of TKS-VA reentry capsules flown as the final dual uncrewed orbital test of the TKS return vehicle, launched stacked on a Proton-K from Baikonur LC-81/24; both capsules were recovered successfully.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 18.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 14th
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 22 May 1979, 23:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 81/24 (81P), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1979-042
- Launches in 1979
- 43rd of 110
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