Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Kosmos 1659, a Zenit-8 (Oblik) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, recovering camera film after a short LEO imaging flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 403rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 13 June 1985, 12:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-046
- Launches in 1985
- 47th of 125
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