Kosmos 1671, a Zenit-8 (Oblik #20) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched on a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk. It provided medium-resolution imagery from low Earth orbit via recoverable film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 411th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 2 August 1985, 11:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-065
- Launches in 1985
- 66th of 125
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