Placed Kosmos 2019, a Zenit-8 film-return reconnaissance satellite, into low Earth orbit for the Soviet military. The roughly two-week mission gathered optical imagery before the film capsule was recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 5 May 1989, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-034
- Launches in 1989
- 34th of 102
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