Launched Cosmos 1915, a Yantar-4KS1 real-time optical reconnaissance satellite, aboard a Soyuz-U from Plesetsk for the Soviet military; the spacecraft returned imagery via radio downlink rather than film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 494th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 26 January 1988, 11:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-004
- Launches in 1988
- 5th of 121
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