Kosmos 1144, a Yantar-2K (Feniks) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3; multi-week high-resolution optical imaging with recoverable film capsules until early December.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 175th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 2 November 1979, 16:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-097
- Launches in 1979
- 101st of 110
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