Kosmos 1956, a Yantar-1KFT (Kometa) cartographic mapping satellite carrying the TK-350 and KVR-1000 cameras, launched from Plesetsk for high-resolution topographic surveying; it completed its roughly two-week mission and decayed on July 7, 1988.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 510th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 23 June 1988, 07:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-055
- Launches in 1988
- 56th of 121
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