Kosmos 1981, a Zenit-8 military cartographic reconnaissance satellite adapted from the Vostok capsule, launched from Plesetsk on a Soyuz-U. It photographed terrain for Soviet mapping purposes and returned its film capsule after a roughly two-week mission before deorbiting on 8 December 1988.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 524th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 24 November 1988, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-103
- Launches in 1988
- 108th of 121
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