Kosmos 1180, a Zenit-4MT (Orion) film-return topographic photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3; cartographic imaging with recoverable film capsule after about eleven days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 191st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1980, 05:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-038
- Launches in 1980
- 38th of 108
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