Launched Kosmos 2048, a Zenit-8 (Oblik) military cartographic film-return satellite, from Plesetsk to photograph Soviet territory for topographic mapping, part of the same reconnaissance-mapping program as later Zenit-8 flights.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 552nd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 1989, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 43/4 (43R), Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-083
- Launches in 1989
- 84th of 102
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