Resurs F2, an Earth-resources imaging satellite on a Vostok-derived bus, launched from Plesetsk to photograph Soviet territory - including seismically active areas of the Armenian SSR - for economic and geological survey during a planned 30-day mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 543rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 18 July 1989, 09:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1989-055
- Launches in 1989
- 56th of 102
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