Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1706, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) film-return reconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, returning high-resolution imagery after a short LEO mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 424th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 11 December 1985, 14:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-112
- Launches in 1985
- 116th of 125
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