Kosmos 1236, a Yantar-2K (Feniks) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 41/1 placed the craft in LEO for multi-week optical imaging with recoverable film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 223rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 26 December 1980, 16:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-105
- Launches in 1980
- 108th of 108
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