Kosmos 2029, a Soviet military cartographic photo-surveillance satellite, launched from Plesetsk to gather high-resolution imagery for topographic mapping during the Cold War.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 5 July 1989, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-051
- Launches in 1989
- 52nd of 102
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