Cosmos 2018, a Yantar-4K1 military photoreconnaissance satellite, launched from Plesetsk aboard a Soyuz-U for a planned 60-day surveillance mission before it was deorbited at the end of its service life.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 535th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 1989, 18:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-031
- Launches in 1989
- 31st of 102
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