Launched Kosmos 1990, a Soviet Earth-resources remote-sensing satellite flown from Plesetsk to survey natural resources for the USSR's national economy under an international scientific cooperation program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T
- Flight
- 528th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 12 January 1989, 11:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-002
- Launches in 1989
- 2nd of 102
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