Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1681, a Zenit-4MKT (Fram) topographic mapping photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, recovering film after a short LEO survey flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 417th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 1985, 10:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-080
- Launches in 1985
- 82nd of 125
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