Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 43/3 launched Kosmos 1224, a Zenit-6 (Argon) medium-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
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 221st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 1 December 1980, 12:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-096
- Launches in 1980
- 98th of 108
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