Kosmos 1173, a Zenit-4MKM (Gerakl) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 31/6 placed the craft in LEO for about eleven days of high-resolution optical imaging before film-capsule recovery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 187th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 April 1980, 08:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-029
- Launches in 1980
- 29th of 108
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