Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1657, a Resurs-F1 (17F41) film-return Earth-observation satellite with multispectral KFA-1000 and KATE-200 cameras for Soviet civil remote sensing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 7 June 1985, 07:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-044
- Launches in 1985
- 45th of 125
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