Soyuz-U from Plesetsk launched Cosmos 1893, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, returning high-resolution imagery via a main reentry module and small film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 486th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1987, 14:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-089
- Launches in 1987
- 93rd of 114
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