Carried the Lotos-S1 electronic intelligence satellite Kosmos 2528 for the Russian Ministry of Defense from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, designed to eavesdrop on radio communications from a roughly 900 km orbit. It was the first Soyuz launch since the October 11 Soyuz MS-10 crewed abort.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 25 Soyuz 2.1b flights
- Date and time
- 25 October 2018, 00:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz 2.1b
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2018-082
- Launches in 2018
- 83rd of 114
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