Kosmos 1298, a Yantar-4K2 (Neman) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Baikonur Site 1/5 lofted the craft into LEO for about six weeks of optical imaging with recoverable film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 254th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 21 August 1981, 10:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-080
- Launches in 1981
- 82nd of 126
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