Kosmos 1978, a Zenit-8 military cartographic satellite adapted from the Vostok capsule, photographed terrain for Soviet mapping and returned its film capsule after about two weeks in orbit, launched from Plesetsk on a Soyuz-U.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 522nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 27 October 1988, 11:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-097
- Launches in 1988
- 101st of 121
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