Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 41/1 launched Kosmos 1139, a Zenit-4MT (Orion) topographic film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for Soviet military mapping, returning imagery after a short LEO mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 172nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 5 October 1979, 11:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-088
- Launches in 1979
- 91st of 110
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