A Soyuz-U-PVB launched Resurs-F1 (also catalogued as Kosmos 2021), a Yantar-derived Earth-resources film-return satellite, from Plesetsk to photograph territory for cartographic and agricultural survey purposes before its capsule was recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 1989, 08:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1989-038
- Launches in 1989
- 38th of 102
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