Kosmos 1649, a Zenit-8 (Oblik #15) 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
- 400th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 1985, 12:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-036
- Launches in 1985
- 37th of 125
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