Deployed Kosmos 1973, a Zenit-8 film-return photoreconnaissance and cartographic satellite that flew an 18-day mission before its capsule was recovered and the spacecraft decayed from orbit on 10 October 1988.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 22 September 1988, 10:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-088
- Launches in 1988
- 92nd of 121
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