Kosmos 1297, a Zenit-6U film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk Site 41/1 placed the craft in LEO for roughly two weeks of optical imaging before capsule recovery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 253rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 1981, 09:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-079
- Launches in 1981
- 81st of 126
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