Soyuz-U launched Cosmos 1905, a roughly 6,300 kg Soviet military photoreconnaissance satellite on a Vostok-derived bus, from Baikonur under the Western cover designation of an Earth-resources spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 491st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 25 December 1987, 08:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1987-107
- Launches in 1987
- 111th of 114
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