Kosmos 1936, a Yantar-4KS1 (Terilen) electro-optical reconnaissance satellite -- the Soviet Union's first digital-transmission spy satellite type -- launched from Baikonur aboard a Soyuz-U booster and operated for about 49 days before reentry.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 500th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 30 March 1988, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-027
- Launches in 1988
- 28th of 121
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