Kosmos 1872, a Zenit-8 (Oblik) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched from Plesetsk on a short-duration imaging mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 479th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 1987, 06:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-069
- Launches in 1987
- 73rd of 114
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