Kosmos 1647, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt #14) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk. It provided high-resolution imagery from low Earth orbit via recoverable film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 398th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 19 April 1985, 14:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-031
- Launches in 1985
- 32nd of 125
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