Launched Kosmos 2020, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) film-return photo-reconnaissance satellite, into low Earth orbit for the Soviet military, conducting higher-resolution imaging over a roughly two-month mission before capsule recovery.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 537th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 1989, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-036
- Launches in 1989
- 36th of 102
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