Kosmos 2049, a Yantar-4KS1 real-time optical reconnaissance satellite, launched from Baikonur on a Soyuz-U-PVB for Soviet military imagery; it operated for about seven months before reentering in June 1990.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 553rd
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 17 November 1989, 10:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 1/5, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-088
- Launches in 1989
- 89th of 102
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