Carried a Resurs-F1 (14F43) film-return remote-sensing satellite, a Vostok-derived craft that photographed Soviet territory for natural-resource surveys and cartography before returning its film capsule to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 70 Soyuz-U-PVB flights
- Date and time
- 6 September 1989, 10:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-U-PVB
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1989-073
- Launches in 1989
- 74th of 102
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