Kosmos 1865, a Yantar-1KFT (Kometa) cartographic film-return satellite for Soviet military mapping, launched on a Soyuz-U from Baikonur. It carried TK-350 topographic and KVR-1000 high-resolution cameras and returned film via a recoverable capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 477th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 8 July 1987, 10:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-058
- Launches in 1987
- 62nd of 114
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