A Soyuz-U-PVB launched a Zenit-8 military cartographic satellite, publicly carried under a Kosmos designation, from Plesetsk on a roughly two-week photographic mapping mission before its film capsule returned to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 514th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1988, 09:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-068
- Launches in 1988
- 72nd of 121
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