Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31 launched Progress 7, an uncrewed cargo freighter to Salyut 6 carrying supplies for the EO-3 crew plus the KRT-10 deployable radio telescope later mounted outside the station.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 8.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 156th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 28 June 1979, 09:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1979-059
- Launches in 1979
- 60th of 110
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