Kosmos 2019, a Zenit-8 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched from Plesetsk aboard a Soyuz-U for a classified Soviet military mapping mission, spending about 13 days in a roughly 250 km orbit before recovery of its film capsule.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 538th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 24 May 1989, 10:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-037
- Launches in 1989
- 37th of 102
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