Soyuz-U from Baikonur launched Progress 18, an uncrewed cargo freighter that docked with Salyut 7 to resupply the EO-2 crew with propellant, food, water, and equipment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 345th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 1983, 09:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1983-106
- Launches in 1983
- 108th of 129
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