Kosmos 2005, a Yantar-4K1 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite for the Soviet military, launched from Plesetsk on a 54-day mission. It ejected exposed film in small recoverable capsules during flight before returning its main capsule at mission's end.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1989, 14:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-022
- Launches in 1989
- 22nd of 102
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