Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1708, a Resurs-F1 Earth-observation film-return satellite that imaged the Earth surface from sun-synchronous LEO for Soviet civil remote-sensing needs.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 425th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1985, 07:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-115
- Launches in 1985
- 119th of 125
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