Progress 41, an uncrewed Soviet cargo spacecraft, launched to resupply the Mir space station's EO-4 crew, docking at the Kvant-1 module two days later. During ascent it also carried out the fourth in-flight test of a Buran shuttle ejection seat.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 9.2 T
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 71 Soyuz-U2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1989, 18:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U2
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1989-023
- Launches in 1989
- 23rd of 102
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