Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1678 (Resurs-F1), a film-return civil Earth-observation satellite imaging land resources from sun-synchronous orbit for Soviet remote-sensing users.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 415th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 1985, 10:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-077
- Launches in 1985
- 79th of 125
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