Kosmos 1118, a Zenit-2M/NKh (Gektor-Priroda) Earth-resources film-return satellite for Soviet natural-resource and environmental photography. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/4 placed the craft in near-polar LEO for imaging before capsule recovery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 161st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 27 July 1979, 07:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-069
- Launches in 1979
- 70th of 110
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