Soyuz T-1, the first uncrewed flight of the new Soyuz-T ferry, testing autonomous rendezvous and docking with Salyut 6. Soyuz-U from Baikonur; docked 19 December, undocked and deorbited 25 March 1980 after an extended station test.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.9 T
- Flight
- 177th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 1979, 12:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1979-103
- Launches in 1979
- 107th of 110
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