Carried Kosmos 2047, a Yantar-4K2 (Kobalt) film-return reconnaissance satellite, into low Earth orbit for the Soviet military. The higher-resolution imaging craft surveyed ground targets before recovering its film capsules.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 551st
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 3 October 1989, 14:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/3 (43L), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-082
- Launches in 1989
- 83rd of 102
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