Kosmos 2025, a Zenit-8 film-return photoreconnaissance satellite, launched from Plesetsk on a classified Soviet military cartographic mapping mission, returning its film capsule to Earth after about two weeks in low orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 539th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 1 June 1989, 12:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-040
- Launches in 1989
- 40th of 102
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