Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1886, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, returning high-resolution imagery via recoverable capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 483rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 1987, 14:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-081
- Launches in 1987
- 85th of 114
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