Deployed Kosmos 2045, a Zenit-8 film-return photo-reconnaissance satellite, into low Earth orbit for Soviet military intelligence. The satellite imaged ground targets over a brief mission before its capsule was returned to Earth.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 550th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 22 September 1989, 08:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-076
- Launches in 1989
- 77th of 102
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