Vostok-2M (8A92M) from Baikonur launched Kosmos 1689 (Resurs-O1 #1), the first operational Resurs-O1 multispectral Earth-observation satellite with MSU scanners for civil remote sensing from sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 90th
- of 93 Vostok 8A92M flights
- Date and time
- 3 October 1985, 05:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Vostok 8A92M
- Builder
- RKK Energia
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-090
- Launches in 1985
- 93rd of 125
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