Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/4 launched Kosmos 1165, a Zenit-4MKM (Gerakl) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military; the recoverable capsule returned after about two weeks in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 182nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 21 February 1980, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-017
- Launches in 1980
- 17th of 108
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