Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1314, a Zenit-4MKT (Fram) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite equipped for topographic mapping imagery for the Soviet military; recovered after about two weeks in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 260th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 9 October 1981, 10:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-101
- Launches in 1981
- 103rd of 126
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