Kosmos 1318, a Yantar-2K (Feniks No.944) high-resolution film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military. Soyuz-U from Plesetsk delivered the craft for roughly a month of optical reconnaissance with recoverable film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 262nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 3 November 1981, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-109
- Launches in 1981
- 111th of 126
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