Kvant-2 module launched toward the Mir space station, carrying a new airlock for spacewalks, water-electrolysis life-support equipment and science instruments; it docked with Mir on 6 December 1989 after a docking-system problem delayed the approach.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 23.5 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 29 Proton-K flights
- Date and time
- 26 November 1989, 13:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1989-093
- Launches in 1989
- 94th of 102
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