Kosmos 1179, a Taifun-1B (Yug) passive radar-calibration satellite for Soviet tracking and air-defense sensor exercises. Kosmos-3M from Plesetsk Site 132/1 placed the craft in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 750 kg
- Flight
- 220th
- of 445 Kosmos-3M (11K65M) flights
- Date and time
- 14 May 1980, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Kosmos-3M (11K65M)
- Builder
- Polyot
- Launch site
- 132/1 (132L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Test Target
- International designator
- 1980-037
- Launches in 1980
- 37th of 108
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