Carried Kosmos 1991, a Zenit-8 film-return photoreconnaissance and military cartographic satellite built on the Vostok-derived bus; it flew a brief 14-day mission before its recovery capsule returned to Earth on 1 February 1989.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 529th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 18 January 1989, 08:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-003
- Launches in 1989
- 3rd of 102
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