Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1280 (Resurs-F1 17F41 15L), a Soviet film-return Earth-resources remote-sensing satellite flown under a Kosmos cover designation; recovered after about two weeks of LEO imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 247th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 2 July 1981, 07:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1981-063
- Launches in 1981
- 65th of 126
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