Launched Kosmos 1967, a Zenit-8 film-return reconnaissance satellite, into low Earth orbit for Soviet military imaging. The spacecraft collected optical intelligence over a roughly two-week flight before returning its film capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 518th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 1988, 07:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-079
- Launches in 1988
- 83rd of 121
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