Soyuz-U from Plesetsk lofted Kosmos 1724, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for Soviet military close-look imaging from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 428th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 15 January 1986, 14:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-004
- Launches in 1986
- 4th of 110
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