Kosmos 1979 was a Soviet US-P naval ocean-reconnaissance (EORSAT) satellite that tracked NATO and other foreign warships by their radio emissions from low Earth orbit, launched from Baikonur on a Tsiklon-2 rocket.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 84th
- of 105 Tsiklon-2 flights
- Date and time
- 18 November 1988, 00:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Tsiklon-2
- Builder
- Yuzhmash
- Launch site
- 90, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-101
- Launches in 1988
- 106th of 121
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