Deployed Kosmos 1983, a Zenit-8 film-return reconnaissance and military cartographic satellite; it flew a 14-day mission before its capsule was recovered, with the spacecraft itself decaying from orbit on 22 December 1988.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 8 December 1988, 14:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-107
- Launches in 1988
- 112th of 121
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