Launched Kosmos 1984, a Yantar-4K1 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, lofted from Plesetsk on a multi-week surveillance mission before its capsule returned with exposed film.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 526th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 1988, 19:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-110
- Launches in 1988
- 115th of 121
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