Foton 5, a Soviet materials-science satellite developed jointly with France, spent about two weeks in orbit growing semiconductor crystals and biologically active substances in microgravity before its recovery capsule returned to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 536th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 26 April 1989, 17:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 41/1, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1989-032
- Launches in 1989
- 32nd of 102
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