Kosmos 1590, a Resurs-F1 (17F41 #20) film-return Earth-resources remote-sensing satellite, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk into sun-synchronous low Earth orbit for multispectral imaging of the Earth’s surface.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 381st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 16 August 1984, 09:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1984-087
- Launches in 1984
- 87th of 129
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