Vostok-2M from Plesetsk Site 43/4 launched Kosmos 1143, a Tselina-D electronic-intelligence satellite that detailed radio-emission sources for the Soviet military Tselina ELINT system from sun-synchronous LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.8 T
- Flight
- 66th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 1979, 18:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-093
- Launches in 1979
- 97th of 110
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