Kosmos 2052, a Soviet film-return photo-reconnaissance satellite launched from Plesetsk on a Soyuz-U; it returned its capsule to Earth on 24 January 1990 after roughly two months of military surveillance imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 554th
- of 714 Soyuz U flights
- Date and time
- 30 November 1989, 15:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz U
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 16/2, Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-095
- Launches in 1989
- 96th of 102
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