Kosmos 1102, a Zenit-2M/NKh (Gektor-Priroda) film-return Earth-resources photoreconnaissance satellite with a Nauka module, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 41/1 into a near-polar LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 149th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 1979, 07:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-043
- Launches in 1979
- 44th of 110
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