Kosmos 1587, a Zenit-8 (Oblik #5) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military (GRU), launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk. It provided optical reconnaissance imagery from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 379th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 6 August 1984, 14:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1984-082
- Launches in 1984
- 82nd of 129
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