Soyuz-U from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1549, a Zenit-6U (Argon) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite that recovered cartographic military imagery via a reentry capsule for the Soviet military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 361st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 19 April 1984, 11:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1984-040
- Launches in 1984
- 40th of 129
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