Launched Kosmos 1969, a Soviet film-return photoreconnaissance satellite from Plesetsk; two small film capsules were ejected and recovered in flight before the main reentry capsule returned with its camera and computer systems at mission's end.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 520th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 15 September 1988, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-084
- Launches in 1988
- 88th of 121
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